Cefn
Cefn is a community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The community of Cefn includes the villages of Cefn Mawr, Cefn Bychan, Acrefair, Penybryn, Newbridge, Plas Madoc and Rhosymedre and is situated on the northern slopes of the Dee Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 6,900 residents
- Description: community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales
- Also known as: “Cefn, Wrexham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Ruabon railway station.
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen in northeast Wales. The 19-arched stone and cast iron structure is for use by narrowboats and was completed in 1805 having taken ten years to design and build.
Ruabon railway station
Railway station
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Ruabon railway station is a combined rail and bus interchange serving Ruabon, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is the second busiest station in Wrexham County Borough in terms of passenger journeys, after the mainline station, Wrexham General.
Tŷ Mawr Country Park
Park
Tŷ Mawr Country Park is a country park and farm park near Cefn Mawr in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The country park lies between Cefn-bychan and Newbridge to the north, the River Dee to the south and west, and the Cefn Viaduct carrying the Shrewsbury–Chester line to the east.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chirk and Llangollen.
Chirk
Chirk is a town in the county borough of Wrexham, North Wales. The town is on the Welsh border near Oswestry.
Llangollen
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Llangollen is a small town in Denbighshire, Wales, ten miles southwest of Wrexham. It's on A5, the historic stagecoach route, and close to the English border, so it's been a tourist destination for 200 years.
Rhosllanerchrugog
Village
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Rhosllanerchrugog is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It lies within the historic county of Denbighshire. The entire built-up area including Penycae, Ruabon and Cefn Mawr had a population of 25,362. Rhosllanerchrugog is situated 2½ miles northeast of Cefn.
Cefn
- Category: community
- Location: Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cefn” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cefn”
- Breton: “Cefn”
- Catalan: “Cefn”
- Cebuano: “Cefn”
- Chinese: “Cefn”
- French: “Cefn”
- Irish: “Cefn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cefn (siā-lí)”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cefn”
- Swedish: “Cefn”
- Welsh: “Cefn, Wrecsam”
- Welsh: “Cefn”
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