More About the Wrexham Area 

With a population of over 65,000, Northwood can sell your home in Wrexham, the largest town in North Wales. Situated twelve miles from Chester, between the lower Dee valley and the Welsh mountains, the town is the commercial centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough. The town is twinned with the German district of Märkischer Kreis and the Polish town of Racibórz.

Wrexham was but a small market town back when John Wilkinson opened Bersham Ironworks and a smelting plant at Brymbo. It’s lead mines at Minera are a museum to a former industry. Tanning became one of the towns’ main sources of employment; later its coalfields and breweries were to become its heritage.

Over the past thirty years the local economy has changed from one dominated by heavy and traditional industry into a centre for hi-tech manufacturing and technology services. With over three hundred businesses providing employment to around 10,000 people, Wrexham Industrial Estate has developed into one of the largest of its kind in Europe; recently being recognised for where the AstraZeneca vaccination is put into glass vials ready for distribution. The estate is also the location of HPM Berwyn, the largest operational prison in the UK. With 800 beds, Wrexham Maelor Hospital is the district general hospital for the North East Wales region.

Glyndŵr University is an accredited institution of the University of Wales with around 8,000 full-time students of which a growing number are international students. Coleg Cambria is a further and higher education college providing a wide range of full and part time courses, apprenticeships, and employer training. Wrexham has a number of community primary schools and six secondary schools, a foundation school at Penley, Ysgol Morgan Llwyd, a Welsh Medium school and St. Joseph’s, a Catholic Voluntary Aided School which became the first shared-faith school in Wales.

Welsh speaking is actively encouraged and taught in schools. Wrecsam became the first location in Wales chosen to be a “bilingual town” in a scheme to promote the use of the Welsh language.

The National Eisteddfod has been hosted by Wrecsam on five occasions. It has a number of theatres, an arts centre and multi-screen Odeon cinema. The William Aston Hall has a full programme of live music, comedy, pantomime, classic and dance events. Wrecsam has a vibrant music scene and a number of live music venues at which international artists have performed. For more than sixty-five years Llangollen has hosted the International Musical Eisteddfod which attracts more than 9,000 people each year; the Wrexham Science Festival is reported to be the biggest of its kind.

Wrexham has three parks and a green at the town’s civic centre. During the summer months at Bellevue Park, music concerts are performed from its original Edwardian bandstand set in an amphitheatre. Acton features a park with a lake which has attracted diverse wildlife. Erddig is owned and managed by the National Trust in which a number of historical features can be found around the park.

Widely acclaimed to be one of Britain’s finest historic houses, Erddig Hall is a fascinating country estate; a magnificent medieval fortress of the Welsh Marches is how the National Trust describe Chirk Castle.

Wrexham has a number of sports, leisure and training centres. Waterworld has aquatic facilities including a six-lane competition pool. Affiliated to the Welsh rugby union, Wrexham Rugby Football Club plays its home games at Bryn Estyn; renowned for its track and field facilities, Queensway Stadium is home to the Wrexham Athletics Club and the North Wales Crusaders Rugby League Club.

Wrexham Golf Club at Borras is widely regarded as one of the premier clubs in the country, regularly playing host to many national and international golfing events. The nearby Clays Golf Club boats a floodlit driving range and indoor coaching studios. Wrexham Tennis Centre at Plas Coch is one of the largest indoor and outdoor tennis facilities in the UK. It not only plays host to international events but supports the development of local players.

Many of the top trainers send their horses to race at Bangor-on-Dee, a left handed jumps racecourse set in glorious countryside overlooked by the Welsh Hills. It has a unique character, amplified by the fact it is the only racecourse in the country that doesn’t have a grandstand.

The town has a professional football team, the third oldest club in Britain. Its aspirations of returning to the Football League have been encouraged by two Holywood investors, ‘Deadpool’ star Ryan Reynolds and ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ creator Rob McElhenney- when they acquired the club recently. Wrexham AFC play its home games at the Racecourse Ground, the world’s oldest international football stadium; the team has its training facilities at Colliers Park in Gresford.