Monks Pool
Monks Pool is a lake in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales. Monks Pool is situated nearby to the village Ruabon, as well as near the neighborhood Afon Eitha.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ruabon railway station and Bonc yr Hafod Country Park.
Ruabon railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ansbaradigeidfran, Public domain.
Ruabon railway station is a combined rail and bus interchange serving Ruabon, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is the second busiest station in Wrexham County Borough in terms of passenger journeys, after the mainline station, Wrexham General.
Bonc yr Hafod Country Park
Park
Bonc yr Hafod is a country park, on the former site of Hafod Colliery, near Johnstown and Pentre Bychan in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The country park is centred on a former spoil tip hill, known locally as "Picnic Mountain", rising up 150 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wrexham and Rhosllanerchrugog.
Wrexham
Photo: kanti kansara, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wrexham is a city in Clwyd in North Wales. It's industrial, but has lost its former trades of coal-mining and brick-making. It was granted "city" status in 2022, but this is ceremonial and doesn't affect its governance.
Rhosllanerchrugog
Village
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Rhosllanerchrugog is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It lies within the historic county of Denbighshire. The entire built-up area including Penycae, Ruabon and Cefn Mawr had a population of 25,362.
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.
Monks Pool
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Wrexham
- Category: body of water
- Location: Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.9962° or 52° 59′ 46″ northLongitude
-3.0392° or 3° 2′ 21″ westOpen location code
9C4RXXW6+F8OpenStreetMap ID
way 56674623OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeWikidata ID
Q107716230
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Welsh—“Monks Pool” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Pwll y Mynach”
- Welsh: “Monks Pool”
- Welsh: “Pwll y Mynach”
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