Registered historic parks and gardens in Wrexham County Borough

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This article is about parks and gardens listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS heritage register. For local parks in Wrexham, see parks and open spaces in Wrexham.
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Wrexham County Borough is a county borough in the north-east of Wales. It covers an area of 503.7 km2 (194.5 sq mi)[1] and in 2021 the population was approximately 135,100.[2]

The Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales was established in 2002 and given statutory status in 2022. It is administered by Cadw, the historic environment agency of the Welsh Government. It includes just under 400 sites, ranging from gardens of private houses, to cemeteries and public parks. Parks and gardens are listed at one of three grades, matching the grading system used for listed buildings. Grade I is the highest grade, for sites of exceptional interest; Grade II*, the next highest, denotes parks and gardens of more than special interest; while Grade II denotes nationally important sites of special interest.[3][4]

There are 17 registered parks and gardens in Wrexham. Three are listed at grade I, three at grade II*, and eleven at grade II.

List of parks and gardens[edit]

Grade Criteria[5]
I Parks and gardens of exceptional interest
II* Particularly important parks and gardens of more than special interest
II Parks and gardens of national importance and special interest
List of parks and gardens
Name Location
Grid Ref.[note 1]
Geo-coordinates 		Date ListedSite typeDescription / NotesGrade Reference Number Image
Argoed Hall Llangollen Rural
SJ2679941371
52°57′52″N 3°05′24″W / 52.96439°N 3.08998°W / 52.96439; -3.08998 (Argoed Hall) 		1 February 2022GardenParks and Woodlands[6] Formal terraced garden; informal woodland grounds. The remains of a Victorian garden and extensive woodland grounds laid out with walks on a steep slope above the River Dee and with a lake on the flood plain.[7]II PGW(C)42(WRE)
Bettisfield Hall Maelor South
SJ4617536014
52°55′07″N 2°48′02″W / 52.91853°N 2.80061°W / 52.91853; -2.80061 (Bettisfield Hall) 		1 February 2022GardenGardens[8] The part walled and part earthwork remains of a Tudor/Jacobean terraced garden.[9]II PGW(C)56(WRE) Bettisfield Hall Farm, with a house at the centre and a path towards it.
Brynkinalt Chirk
SJ3021838023
52°56′05″N 3°02′18″W / 52.93475°N 3.03835°W / 52.93475; -3.03835 (Brynkinalt) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensPark[10] Large picturesque landscape park; formal and informal pleasure gardens, laid out in the nineteenth-century and providing the setting to the house and its gardens.[11]II* PGW(C)15(WRE) Brynkinalt Hall towards its front entrance.
Chirk Castle Glyntraian
SJ2676638102
52°56′06″N 3°05′23″W / 52.935°N 3.089722°W / 52.935; -3.089722 (Chirk Castle) 		1 February 2022Parks and gardensGardens[12] It is registered for its outstanding landscape park, partly designed by William Emes, and its terraced and informal garden which includes remains from the medieval period onwards, all set in a fine elevated position.[13]I PGW(C)63(WRE) Garden footpath at Chirk Castle
Erbistock Hall Erbistock
SJ3500142495
52°58′32″N 2°58′05″W / 52.97555°N 2.96809°W / 52.97555; -2.96809 (Erbistock Hall) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensPark and Gardens[14] Park with formal elements; formal, partly terraced, part walled garden probably dating to the early eighteenth-century, with well-preserved, very fine yew hedging and topiary of some antiquity.[15]II PGW(C)73(WRE) Erbistock Hall
Erddig Marchwiel
SJ3249648275
53°01′38″N 3°00′24″W / 53.0272°N 3.0066°W / 53.0272; -3.0066 (Erddig) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensPark[16] An early eighteenth century grand formal garden in the Dutch style set within an eighteenth-century park designed by the landscape designer William Emes for Philip Yorke. The park includes an unusual water feature, the cup and saucer, designed by Emes in 1774. The registered park and garden has important group value with the listed house and the many listed estate buildings, parkland features and garden structures on the Erddig estate.[17]I PGW(C)62(WRE) Gardens at Erddig
Gredington Park Hanmer
SJ4448138649
52°56′31″N 2°49′35″W / 52.94205°N 2.82625°W / 52.94205; -2.82625 (Gredington Park) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensLandscaped park[18] Medium-sized landscape park; informal garden with some formal elements; Japanese garden; and walled kitchen gardens.[19]II PGW(C)57(WRE) Lodge, among trees, at the entrance to a country house
Horsley Hall Gresford
SJ3648055199
53°05′24″N 2°56′55″W / 53.08993°N 2.94857°W / 53.08993; -2.94857 (Horsley Hall) 		1 February 2022GardenTerraced garden[20] Survival of the structure of an extensive Edwardian garden, with some massive rockwork and a few fine ornamental trees.[21]II PGW(C)59(WRE) Lodge, among trees, at the entrance to a country house
Iscoyd Park Bronington
SJ5036642017
52°58′22″N 2°44′21″W / 52.9729°N 2.7392°W / 52.9729; -2.7392 (Iscoyd Park) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensPark[22] Small but intact eighteenth-century park with its fine specimen trees. Group value with the Grade II* Listed hall, Iscoyd Park.[23]II PGW(C)16(WRE) Red perimeter wall of Iscoyd Park
Pen-y-lan Ruabon
SJ3281541109
52°57′46″N 3°00′01″W / 52.962822°N 3.000351°W / 52.962822; -3.000351 (Pen-y-lan) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensLandscaped park[24] Well-preserved landscape park in an unspoilt rural location. Group value with the listed Pen-y-lan Hall.[25]II PGW(C)52(WRE) engraving of a country house standing in a park
Rosehill Erbistock
SJ3483942872
52°58′44″N 2°58′14″W / 52.97892°N 2.97058°W / 52.97892; -2.97058 (Rosehill) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensLandscaped park[26] Late eighteenth to early nineteenth-century landscape park, with formal gardens including the a box-edged Edwardian parterre and a well-preserved walled kitchen garden. Group value with the late Georgian house.[27]II PGW(C)72(WRE)
St. Mary's Churchyard, Overton Overton
SJ3724241848
52°58′12″N 2°56′05″W / 52.97°N 2.93459°W / 52.97; -2.93459 (St. Mary's Churchyard, Overton) 		1 February 2022ChurchyardChurchyard[28] Churchyard of St Mary’s Church, surrounded by red sandstone wall. Its ancient yews are one of the Seven Wonders of Wales.[29]II PGW(C)8(WRE) St Mary's Churchyard in Overton and one of its Yew Trees.
Trevalyn Hall Rossett
SJ3641256832
53°06′17″N 2°57′00″W / 53.1046°N 2.9499°W / 53.1046; -2.9499 (Trevalyn Hall) 		1 February 2022Deer park, orchard and formal gardenParks and gardens[30] Remains of sixteenth- or seventeenth-century deer parks, an embanked orchard, a walled garden and a well-preserved nineteenth-century topiary. Group value with Grade II* Listed Trevalyn Hall and its listed courtyard.[31]II PGW(C)26(WRE) Trevalyn Hall from a nearby field.
Trevalyn House Rossett
SJ3668656528
53°06′07″N 2°56′45″W / 53.1019°N 2.94576°W / 53.1019; -2.94576 (Trevalyn House) 		1 February 2022GardensFormal garden[32] Nineteenth-century pleasure grounds, with a rockery and some fine mature trees, both coniferous and deciduous, and well-preserved kitchen garden walls. Group value with the Grade II Listed house.[33]II* PGW(C)74(WRE) Trevalyn House
Whitehurst Chirk
SJ2871440043
52°57′10″N 3°03′40″W / 52.95271°N 3.06118°W / 52.95271; -3.06118 (Whitehurst) 		1 February 2022GardenGarden[34] Seventeenth-century walled garden of Chirk Castle, and was laid out by Sir Thomas Myddleton II (1586-1666) of Chirk Castle as a pleasure garden in about 1651.[35]II* PGW(C)11(WRE) Looking to Bryn-yr-Eos houses, with Whitehurst gardens in the distance.
Wrexham Cemetery Offa, Wrexham
SJ3252149631
53°02′22″N 3°00′23″W / 53.039387°N 3.006515°W / 53.039387; -3.006515 (Wrexham Cemetery) 		1 February 2022Garden cemeteryGardens[36] Victorian walled garden cemetery, group value with the listed cemetery chapel, lodge, gates, gate piers and railings.[37]II PGW(C)67(WRE) Tombstones in Wrexham Cemetery
Wynnstay Ruabon
SJ3079942637
52°58′35″N 3°01′51″W / 52.9763°N 3.0307°W / 52.9763; -3.0307 (Wynnstay) 		1 February 2022Park and gardensLandscaped park[38] Nineteenth-century landscape park, informal garden and terrace garden, attached to the estate mansion and situated on high ground near Ruabon, extending down to the River Dee.[39]I PGW(C)64(WRE) Hills near Wynnstay and its lake

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Sometimes known as OSGB36, the grid reference is based on the British national grid reference system used by the Ordnance Survey.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wrexham - Population Density (QS102EW)". UKCensusdata.com. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Labour Market Profile - Wrexham". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Historic Parks and Gardens". Cadw. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Registered historic parks and gardens". Cadw. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Understanding registered historic parks & gardens: 2. What is registration?". Cadw. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Argoed Hall - Froncysyllte". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  7. ^ Cadw. "Argoed Hall (PGW(C)42(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Bettisfield Hall - Bettisfield". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  9. ^ Cadw. "Bettisfield Hall (PGW(C)56(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Brynkinalt - Wrexham". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  11. ^ Cadw. "Brynkinalt (PGW(C)15(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Chirk Castle - Llangollen". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  13. ^ Cadw. "Chirk Castle (PGW(C)63(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  14. ^ "Erbistock Hall - Wrexham". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  15. ^ Cadw. "Erbistock Hall (PGW(C)73(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  16. ^ "Erddig - Wrexham". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  17. ^ Cadw. "Erddig (PGW(C)62(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  18. ^ "Gredington Park - Hanmer". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  19. ^ Cadw. "Gredington Park (PGW(C)57(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  20. ^ "Horsley Hall - Gresford". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  21. ^ Cadw. "Horsley Hall (PGW(C)59(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  22. ^ "Iscoyd Park - Grindley Brook". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  23. ^ Cadw. "Iscoyd Park (PGW(C)16(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  24. ^ "Pen-y-lan - Erbistock,". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  25. ^ Cadw. "Pen-y-lan (PGW(C)52(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  26. ^ "Rosehill - Ruabon". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  27. ^ Cadw. "Rosehill (PGW(C)72(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  28. ^ "St Mary's Churchyard - Overton-on-Dee". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  29. ^ Cadw. "St. Mary's Churchyard, Overton (PGW(C)8(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  30. ^ "Trevalyn Hall - Wrexham". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  31. ^ Cadw. "Trevalyn Hall (PGW(C)26(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  32. ^ "Trevalyn House - Rossett". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  33. ^ Cadw. "Trevalyn House (PGW(C)74(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  34. ^ "Whitehurst Gardens - Chirk". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  35. ^ Cadw. "Whitehurst (PGW(C)11(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  36. ^ "Wrexham Cemetery - Wrexham". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  37. ^ Cadw. "Wrexham Cemetery (PGW(C)67(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  38. ^ "Wynnstay - Ruabon". Parks & Gardens. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  39. ^ Cadw. "Wynnstay (PGW(C)64(WRE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
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