Limeworks

Limeworks is a ruins in Weston Rhyn, Shropshire, England. Limeworks is situated nearby to the village Bronygarth, as well as near the forest Pentre Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chirk railway station and Chirk Aqueduct.

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 railway station is situated 1¼ miles east of Limeworks.

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 Aqueduct is situated 1¼ miles east of Limeworks.

Chirk Viaduct

Bridge

Photo: Steve Knight, CC BY 2.0.

The Chirk Viaduct is a railway viaduct with Grade II* listed status 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. Chirk Viaduct is situated 1¼ miles east of Limeworks.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bronygarth and Weston Rhyn.

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.

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 1½ miles southeast of Limeworks.