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 railway station

Railway station

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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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chirk Bank and Chirk.

Chirk Bank

Hamlet

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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.

Chirk

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

Weston Rhyn

Village

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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.

Gledrid

Type: Locality
Location: Weston Rhyn, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.9244° or 52° 55′ 28″ north

Longitude

-3.04472° or 3° 2′ 41″ west

Elevation

318 feet (97 metres)

Open location code

9C4RWXF4+Q4

GeoNames ID

13280393

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