Weston Rhyn
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chirk Aqueduct and Chirk Viaduct.
Chirk Aqueduct
Bridge
Chirk Aqueduct is a 70-foot high and 710-foot long navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England–Wales border, spanning the two countries.
Chirk Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Steve Knight, CC BY 2.0.
The Chirk Viaduct is a Grade II* listed railway viaduct over the River Ceiriog between England and Wales. The viaduct carries the Shrewsbury–Chester line from the Welsh town of Chirk in historic Denbighshire from the north to the English village of Chirk Bank in Weston Rhyn, Shropshire to the south.
Moreton Hall School
School
Moreton Hall is a private boarding and day school for girls aged 6 months to 18 and boys aged 6 months to 11, situated in North Shropshire four miles from the market town of Oswestry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chirk Bank and Bronygarth.
Chirk Bank
Hamlet
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chirk Bank is a small village in Shropshire, England. The industrial town of Chirk is to the north, over the border in Wales, with the B5070 road connecting the two settlements via a bridge over the River Ceiriog.
Bronygarth
Village
Photo: Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bronygarth is a small village in the Ceiriog Valley near Oswestry in Shropshire, England at grid reference SJ268370. The village is on the England–Wales border with some buildings in Wales in the Glyntraian local government community.
Chirk
Weston Rhyn
- Type: Village with 2,830 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Weston Rhyn, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.91479° or 52° 54′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.06579° or 3° 3′ 57″ westPopulation
2,830Elevation
423 feet (129 metres)Open location code
9C4RWW7M+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 29762993OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592766Wikidata ID
Q3877115
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Weston Rhyn” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Weston Rhyn”
- Cebuano: “Weston Rhyn”
- Dutch: “Weston Rhyn”
- French: “Weston Rhyn”
- Irish: “Weston Rhyn”
- Italian: “Weston Rhyn”
- Japanese: “ウェストン・リン”
- Ladin: “Weston Rhyn”
- Polish: “Weston Rhyn”
- Spanish: “Weston Rhyn”
- Swedish: “Weston Rhyn”
- Turkish: “Weston Rhyn”
- Welsh: “Weston Rhyn”
- “Weston Rhyn”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Weston Rhyn”. Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.