Towns and villages around Wrexham
World Heritage canals, National Trust castles, medieval bridges and church bells famous across Wales, all within a short drive of the city.
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Wrexham county stretches from the Dee Valley and the Llangollen Canal in the south-west to the Cheshire border at Holt in the east. Each of these places makes an easy half day out from the city.
Cefn Mawr
A hillside village above the Dee with the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the Cefn Viaduct and Ty Mawr Country Park all within walking distance.
Read the Cefn Mawr guide →about 8 miles from WrexhamOverton-on-Dee
A border market village famous for the 21 ancient yews of St Mary's churchyard, one of the Seven Wonders of Wales.
Read the Overton-on-Dee guide →about 5 miles from WrexhamRuabon
A rail-connected village with a Grade I church, Wynn family memorials, Welsh football history and a proud red brick and terracotta past.
Read the Ruabon guide →about 10 miles from WrexhamChirk
Home to National Trust Chirk Castle, plus Telford's Chirk Aqueduct and canal tunnel beside Robertson's railway viaduct.
Read the Chirk guide →about 6 miles from WrexhamHolt
A Dee-side border village with a Grade I medieval bridge to Farndon, the restored Holt Castle ruins and St Chad's Church.
Read the Holt guide →about 3 miles from WrexhamGresford
Home of the famous Gresford bells, a magnificent medieval church and the memorial to the 1934 colliery disaster.
Read the Gresford guide →Over the border and up the valley
Chester is about 12 miles north and Llangollen about 11 miles west.
See our sister guides at CityofChester.org and Llangollen.com, browse things to do in Wrexham, or check what's on.
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