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Chirk

Chirk is a town in the county borough of , . The town is on the Welsh border near .
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  • Type: Town with 4,010 residents
  • Description: town and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales
  • Also known as: “Y Waun”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chirk railway station and Chirk Community Hospital.

Railway station
Photo: Chris Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the town of Chirk, , . 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.

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

Bridge
is a 70-foot high and 710-foot long navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England–Wales border, spanning the two countries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Weston Rhyn and St Martin’s.

Village
Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large village and civil parish in , England. It lies between the towns of Chirk, in Wales, and , in England. The civil parish, which also includes , 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.

Village
Photo: Maelor, Public domain.
St Martin's is a village and civil parish in , England, just north of and east of Chirk, Wales on the England–Wales border.

Hamlet
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in , England. The industrial town of Chirk is to the north, over the border in , with the B5070 road connecting the two settlements via a bridge over the .

Chirk

Latitude
52.932° or 52° 55′ 55″ north
Longitude
-3.0564° or 3° 3′ 23″ west
Population
4,010
Elevation
351 feet (107 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CIK
Open location code
9C4RWWJV+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27459591
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2653131
Wiki­data ID
Q2316216
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Chirk” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Y Waun”
  • Basque: “Chirk”
  • Basque: “Y Waun”
  • Bengali: “চির্ক”
  • Breton: “Y Waun”
  • Bulgarian: “Чърк”
  • Catalan: “Chirk”
  • Catalan: “Y Waun”
  • Cebuano: “Chirk”
  • Chinese: “Chirk”
  • Chinese: “奇克鎮”
  • Chinese: “彻克”
  • Chinese: “徹克”
  • Cornish: “Y Waun”
  • Danish: “Chirk”
  • Dutch: “Chirk”
  • French: “Chirk”
  • German: “Chirk”
  • German: “Y Waun”
  • Gujarati: “ચિર્ક”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ירק”
  • Hungarian: “Chirk”
  • Indonesian: “Chirk”
  • Indonesian: “Waun”
  • Irish: “Y Waun”
  • Italian: “Chirk”
  • Japanese: “チャーク”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿರ್ಕ್”
  • Korean: “처크”
  • Latin: “Guainia”
  • Lithuanian: “Čerkas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chirk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chirk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Y Waun”
  • Norwegian: “Chirk”
  • Persian: “چیرک”
  • Polish: “Chirk”
  • Portuguese: “Chirk”
  • Russian: “Чирк”
  • Scots: “Y Waun”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Y Waun”
  • Spanish: “Chirk”
  • Spanish: “Y Waun”
  • Swedish: “Chirk”
  • Tamil: “சிர்க்”
  • Telugu: “చిర్క్”
  • Urdu: “چیرک”
  • Vietnamese: “Chirk”
  • Vietnamese: “Y Waun”
  • Welsh: “Chirk”
  • Welsh: “Y Waun”
  • Welsh: “Yr Waun”

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