Visit Gwersyllt Places

Welcome to Visit Gwersyllt Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gwersyllt

  

Gwersyllt Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gwersyllt

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Gwersyllt history

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Gwersyllt was originally a township of the parish of Gresford, and by 1833 had 834 inhabitants. The area was home to several collieries and a canal was planned to run through the community. In the mid-20th century, large council estates were built amongst the existing village.

You can visit Gwersyllt places with Walkfo Gwersyllt to hear history at Gwersyllt’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gwersyllt has 63 places to visit in our interactive Gwersyllt map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Gwersyllt, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Gwersyllt places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gwersyllt & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 63 audio facts unique to Gwersyllt places in an interactive Gwersyllt map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Gwersyllt Places Map
63 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Gwersyllt historic spots	Gwersyllt tourist destinations	Gwersyllt plaques	Gwersyllt geographic features
Walkfo Gwersyllt tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gwersyllt

  

Best Gwersyllt places to visit

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Gwersyllt has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gwersyllt’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gwersyllt’s information audio spots:

Hope, Flintshire Hope (Welsh: Yr Hôb) is a small village and community in Flintshire, north-east Wales. At the 2001 Census, community the population was 2,522, increasing to 4,224 at the 2011 Census partly due to boundary changes.

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.

Brymbo Hall Brymbo Hall is one of Britain’s lost houses. It was the residence of industrialist and ironmaster John “Iron-Mad” Wilkinson. It is reputed to have been partly built to the designs of Inigo Jones.

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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