Chirk

Chirk is a town in the county borough of Wrexham, North Wales. The town is on the Welsh border near Oswestry.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Chirk railway station.

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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.

Chirk railway station

Railway station

Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chirk railway station serves the town of Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The station is on the Shrewsbury to Chester Line that is part of the former Great Western Railway mainline route from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside.

Chirk Community Hospital

Hospital

Chirk Community Hospital is a community hospital in Chirk, Wales. It is managed by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cefn Mawr and Weston Rhyn.

Cefn Mawr

Village

Photo: John Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cefn Mawr is a village in the community of Cefn within Wrexham County Borough, Wales. Its name translates as "big ridge". The population in 2001 was 6,669, increasing to 7,051 in 2011.

Weston Rhyn

Village

Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Weston Rhyn is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It lies between the towns of Chirk, in Wales, and Oswestry, in England. The civil parish, which also includes Bronygarth, Pentre-Newydd and a number of small hamlets, had a total population of 2,668 at the 2001 census, rising to 2,850 at the 2011 Census. Weston Rhyn is situated 2½ miles south of Chirk.

Chirk

Type: Locality
Location: Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.9486° or 52° 56′ 55″ north

Longitude

-3.0701° or 3° 4′ 12″ west

Elevation

377 feet (115 metres)

Open location code

9C4RWWXH+CX

GeoNames ID

7297548

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