Registered historic parks and gardens in Wrexham County Borough

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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

List of parks and gardens

Name	Location Grid Ref.[note 1] Geo-coordinates	Date Listed	Site type	Description / Notes	Grade	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 2022	Garden	Parks 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 2022	Garden	Gardens[8] The part walled and part earthwork remains of a Tudor/Jacobean terraced garden.[9]	II	PGW(C)56(WRE)
Brynkinalt	Chirk SJ3021838023 52°56′05″N 3°02′18″W / 52.93475°N 3.03835°W / 52.93475; -3.03835 (Brynkinalt)	1 February 2022	Park and gardens	Park[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)
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 2022	Parks and gardens	Gardens[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)
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 2022	Park and gardens	Park 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)
Erddig	Marchwiel SJ3249648275 53°01′38″N 3°00′24″W / 53.0272°N 3.0066°W / 53.0272; -3.0066 (Erddig)	1 February 2022	Park and gardens	Park[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)
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 2022	Park and gardens	Landscaped park[18] Medium-sized landscape park; informal garden with some formal elements; Japanese garden; and walled kitchen gardens.[19]	II	PGW(C)57(WRE)
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 2022	Garden	Terraced 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)
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 2022	Park and gardens	Park[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)
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 2022	Park and gardens	Landscaped 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)
Rosehill	Erbistock SJ3483942872 52°58′44″N 2°58′14″W / 52.97892°N 2.97058°W / 52.97892; -2.97058 (Rosehill)	1 February 2022	Park and gardens	Landscaped 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 2022	Churchyard	Churchyard[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)
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 2022	Deer park, orchard and formal garden	Parks 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 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 2022	Gardens	Formal 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)
Whitehurst	Chirk SJ2871440043 52°57′10″N 3°03′40″W / 52.95271°N 3.06118°W / 52.95271; -3.06118 (Whitehurst)	1 February 2022	Garden	Garden[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)
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 2022	Garden cemetery	Gardens[36] Victorian walled garden cemetery, group value with the listed cemetery chapel, lodge, gates, gate piers and railings.[37]	II	PGW(C)67(WRE)
Wynnstay	Ruabon SJ3079942637 52°58′35″N 3°01′51″W / 52.9763°N 3.0307°W / 52.9763; -3.0307 (Wynnstay)	1 February 2022	Park and gardens	Landscaped 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)

See also

• List of scheduled monuments in Wrexham County Borough
• Grade I listed buildings in Wrexham County Borough
• Grade II* listed buildings in Wrexham County Borough

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