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The development of Garden Village began with the purchase of some 200 acres (81 hectares) of land from Sir Foster Cunliffe near to the estate of Acton by the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust Limited. The original plan was to provide a village institute, two places of worship, a school and plenty of open spaces and recreation grounds. In the first year, 44 properties were completed; numbers 63-69 Acton Gate,. numbers 149–167, Chester Road (originally called Bryn Acton) and. Chester Road.

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Borras Park Borras Park (Welsh: Parc Borras / Parc Bwras) is an electoral division in the community of Acton in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The name is derived from the nearby area of Borras. At the time of the 2001 Census, the population was 2,517 in 1,065 household, reducing to 2,359 at the 2011 Census.

Ysgol Morgan Llwyd Ysgol Morgan Llwyd is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school in Wrexham, north-east Wales. It is named after the seventeenth century preacher and author Morgan Lillwyd. The school has been open at its present location in Cefn Road since 2000.

Caia Park Caia Park (Welsh: Parc Caia) is a local government community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It was created in 1985 after a boundary commission review of the four community areas within the town of Wrexham, the others being Acton, Offa, and Rhosddu. At the 2001 census, the community had a population of 11,882 in 5,019 households, increasing to 12,602 in 2011.

Wrexham-Rhos transmitting station The Wrexham-Rhos transmitting station is a digital television relay of Moel-y-Parc. It is a free-standing lattice tower structure serving around 85,000 homes. It was constructed to coincide with the 1977 National Eisteddfod. It initially provided S4C and BBC One Wales, later joined by HTV Wales in 1997.

Rhosddu Rhosddu (Welsh pronunciation) is a local government community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. At the 2011 Census, the population of the community was 6,840 and 11.8% of people aged 3+ spoke Welsh.

Wrexham General railway station Wrexham General is the main railway station in north-east Wales. The station was first opened in 1846 and expanded in 1912. It is currently operated by Transport for Wales, but services are also provided by Avanti West Coast.

Wrexham County Borough Wrexham County Borough is a principal area with county borough status in the preserved county of Clwyd, Wales. The county borough was formed on 1 April 1996 and has a population of nearly 135,000 inhabitants. The area has strong links with coal-mining and has only two urban towns, Chirk and Holt.

Llwyn Isaf Llwyn Isaf (“lower grove”) is a green space in the centre of Wrexham. It is surrounded on two sides by the town’s guildhall and on another by the Library Arts Centre. The space is most popular with students from Yale College.

Gresford Colliery Gresford Colliery was a coal mine located a mile from the North Wales village of Greffford, near Wrexham. The mine was a one-mile-long mine located near the village of Gresford.

A. N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives holds archives for the town of Wrexham. The centre is named after local historian Alfred Neobard Palmer.

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