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Nant Mill is a country park in the county of Wrexham, North East Wales. It is managed by Wrexham County Borough and named after a historic corn mill located at the site
Erddig Hall, Marchwiel, Wrexham, North Wales LL13 0YT.
Erddig Hall Coordinates.... 53°1′38″N 3°0′23″W
Erddig Hall is a country house and estate in the community of Marchwiel, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Wrexham, Wales. It is centred on a country house which dates principally from between 1684 and 1687, when the central block was built by Joshua Edisbury, and the 1720s, when the flanking wings were added by its second owner, John Meller. Erddig was inherited by Simon Yorke in 1733, and remained in the Yorke family until it was given to the National Trust by Philip Scott Yorke in 1973.
The gardens were laid out between 1718 and 1733, and the surrounding park was landscaped between 1767 and 1789. The estate is approximately 1,900 acres (770 ha) in size, and includes part of Wat's Dyke and the remains of a motte-and-bailed castle of the Norman period. A pair of gates, originally located at Stansty Park and attributed to Robert Davies, stand at the end of the garden canal.
The Yorke family had an unusual relationship with their servants, and commemorated them in a large and unique collection of portraits and poems. This collection, and the good state of preservation of the servants' quarters and estate workshops, provide an insight into how servants lived between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The house is also significant for its collection of seventeenth-century furniture; this includes the state bed, a rare surviving example of a lit à la duchesse canopy bed which retains its original hangings and bed cover of silk satin embroidered with Chinese designs. The house was designated a grade I listed building in 1952.
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A pre-work walk this morning around our local park in Wrexham.
The main reason for a day out on the Welsh Marches on 12/9/1986 was to record the Coal Tank moving from Dinting to the Severn Valley.
Copyright David Price
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The National Trust's Erddig Hall in Wrexham.
A shot taken during a walk around the more rural areas of Wrexham last month.
A slight detour from a day in the north west for the final shot of the day. Wrexham General station with a small group of the 1Z10 railway photographers to capture the Logs.
This shot is a two image blend, the locomotive was going some through the station, 1/200 Sec was just about fast enough freeze the moving loco, 1/200, f4, ISO3200, blended with a slower shutter, lower ISO of the station surroundings. 1/13 f4 ISO 250.
Colas 70809 6J37 12:48 Carlisle Yard to Chirk Kronospan.
70809 charges through Wrexham General 6J37 1248 Carlisle Yard Colas Rail to Chirk Kronospan Colas Rail
Bersham Waterfall Wrexham Nikon D7000. 5min exposure. ND400 filter over a circular polarising filter. ISO 100. F14.
We thought we would upload this image just to cool people down during this heatwave. This was taken during lockdown in January this year around the corner from our house. Wrexham isn't known for it's beautiful landscapes however snow does a good job in hiding as much as revealing.
47236 with a train of logs. The train will reverse at Wrexham to reach the paper mills at Dee Marsh.
GHA Coaches are a local independent in North Wales and are largely the only big alternative to Arriva. Unfortunately, like Arriva, they are known for poor vehicle presentation in areas and maintenance can be somewhat patchy. Here, two of their vehicles, T314 UOX, an ex-Travel West Midlands Optare Solo M850, and BA05 GHA, a TransBus Mini Pointer Dart, are seen in Wrexham Bus Station.
1V94, formed of 175103, leaves Wrexham General behind as it continues its journey to Shrewsbury from Holyhead.
A spinning merry go round at night instills an indelible impression upon the mind of an onlooking child.....and of course adults who yearn to be young again.
Just some hokey pokery with iPad software...will re up in a few days with some moe scenes from the Victorian Christmas Market at Wrexham held today 7th December...with that painterly style I used to use a couple of years ago....promise!
Although repainted and having had a mechanical overhaul 40122/D200 was still in BR service. In this picture it is working a leg of the Conway Crusader II from Chester to Wrexham.
40122 was new to 30A Stratford depot 14/03/1958, it was a product of the English Electric Vulcan Foundry. The locomotive was finally withdrawn 18/04/1988 and is preserved.
Copyright Geoff Dowling: 21/04/1984: All rights reserved
Freight action at Wrexham General on 15th March 2005. 66243 is on a train of logs from Warrington Arpley to Kronospan, Chirk. It is held at the signal as 60012 comes over the crossover after running round its train at Watery Road. This train is of empty coal wagons from Castle Cement, Penyffordd and it is going to Redcar for reloading.
Transport for Wales Class 197 No. 197108 calls at Wrexham General working 1W94, the 13:22 Cardiff Central – Holyhead service on 27th September 2024.
A grim wet night in Wrexham, the comings and goings of the various units providing the entertainment until the main purpose - the Class 70 on the logs.
Departing Wrexham General into a drizzly, wet night and sounding remarkably like a London Underground train, 230010 with 2F92 18:18 Wrexham Central to Bidston.
6th February 2026
Taken just before closure of the original station. The whole area was redeveloped into the Island Green retail park later that year. A new statiion was built half a mile further away from the original.
View from Rawhead looking over Cheshire countryside towards Wrexham
28x 8 second exposures stacked in Sequator for noise reduction and edited in LR to make the constellation stand out a little more
The Library
Erddig Hall is a celebrated 18th-century country house, garden, and estate managed by the National Trust, located approximately 2 miles south of Wrexham in North Wales. Widely known for providing an incredibly well-rounded look at upstairs and downstairs life, the estate explicitly preserves the close relationship between the Yorke family and their household staff.
Constructed between 1683 and 1687, the estate passed from its bankrupt builder to a wealthy London lawyer, eventually being handed down through seven generations of the Yorke family before being gifted to the National Trust in 1973.
The railway came to Wrexham in 1846 but this view of the General Station is the 1912 rebuild to a typical GWR design, platform 4 was incorporated into the station in 1980 which was once part a different station altogether called Wrexham Exchange, the surviving platform there is used by the Wrexham Central to Bidston 'Borderland' Line Trains.
CHIRK CASTLE WAS COMPLETED IN 1310 DURING THE REIGN OF THE CONQUERING EDWARD I TO SUBDUE THE LAST PRINCES OF WALES. BUILT ON AN OUTCROP ABOVE THE MEETING POINT OF THE RIVERS DEE AND CEIRIOG, THE IMPOSING CASTLE WAS A BROODING STATEMENT OF ENGLISH INTENT IN THESE DISPUTED WELSH LANDS.
WITH OVER 700 YEARS OF HISTORY, AND AS THE LAST CASTLE FROM THIS PERIOD STILL LIVED IN TODAY, CHIRK CASTLE'S MANY OCCUPANTS HAVE LEFT BEHIND LAVISH INTERIORS AND A BEAUTIFUL AND ECLECTIC COLLECTION. THE STATE ROOMS INCLUDE A 17TH-CENTURY LONG GALLERY, GRAND 18TH-CENTURY SALOON WITH RICH TAPESTRIES, SERVANTS' HALL, AND THE RESTORED EAST RANGE, CONTAINING THE LIBRARY AND 1920S STYLE BOW ROOM SHOWING OFF CHIRK CASTLE’S CONNECTIONS TO HIGH SOCIETY.
THE AWARD-WINNING GARDENS COVER 5.5 ACRES OF MANICURED LAWNS, CLIPPED YEWS, HERBACEOUS BORDERS, BEAUTIFUL ROSE, SHRUB AND ROCK GARDENS, AND THE WOODED PLEASURE GROUND – PERFECT FOR A STROLL. DON'T MISS THE TERRACE OVERLOOKING THE 18TH CENTURY HA-HA AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN, WITH STUNNING VIEWS OVER THE CHESHIRE AND SALOP PLAINS.
CHIRK CASTLE HAS OVER 480 ACRES OF ESTATE PARKLAND FOR YOU TO EXPLORE, WITH WILD PONIES, SHEEP, VETERAN TREES, AND A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED SECTION OF OFFA’S DYKE. THE ESTATE IS LOCATED WITHIN AN AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY AND HAS ALSO BEEN DESIGNATED A SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST AS AN IMPORTANT HABITAT FOR RARE INVERTEBRATES, BATS, FUNGI, AND WILD FLOWERS.