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Marchwiel (Welsh: Marchwiail; standardised: Marchwiel [1]) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is about 2 miles south-east of Wrexham city on the A525 road towards Bangor-on-Dee. The community has an area of 1,488 hectares and a population of 1,418 (2001 census), the population falling to 1,379 at the 2011 Census. [2]
It borders several other villages including Gwersyllt and Gresford. At the 2001 Census, the total population of the community of Llay, including Llay village, was 4,905, [2] reducing to 4,814 at the 2011 Census. Prior to the 1960s, Llay was a coal mining village. Llay Main Colliery, at one time the largest colliery in Wales and after 1952 the ...
Marford is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, near the Wales-England border. Marford covers some 750 acres (3.0 km 2 ), where the hills of north-east Wales meet the Cheshire Plain . Distant landmarks that can be seen clearly from Marford include Eaton Hall , Chester Town Hall and Cathedral .
Rossett is geographically located near to the Welsh and English border cities of Wrexham (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (10.5 km) distant) and Chester (7 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12.1 km) away). The village sits close to the Wales–England border and is built on the banks of the River Alyn which is a tributary of the River Dee 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) downstream.
Willington Worthenbury (Welsh: Willington Wrddymbre) is a community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, and is situated near the England–Wales border. It has an area of 2,146 hectares and a population of 730 (2001 census), increasing to 827 at the 2011 census. [1] It contains the villages of Worthenbury and Tallarn Green.
Ponciau is a village within the community of Rhosllanerchrugog, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. It is close to the villages of Legacy, Pentre Bychan, and Johnstown and is overlooked by Ruabon Mountain. The village name is also applied to a larger electoral ward, whose population at the 2011 Census was 4,842. [1]
Location of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in Wrexham County Borough, is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched ...