The Moss Valley is an area and country park in the county borough of Wrexham, Wales. The area, informally known as The Moss and The Aggey by local people, has an extensive coal mining history. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Wrexham Golf Roots Festival
Highlights of the North Wales Golf Roots Festival with the World record breaking biggest ever golf lesson.
Filmed and edited by Knew Productions Ltd. National award winning video production company based in Wrexham and Chester. knewproductions.co.uk
Wrexham
Wrexham is a town in north Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley alongside the border with Cheshire, England. As the largest town in the north of Wales, it is a major centre of the region's administrative, commercial, retail and educational infrastructure. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011, the Wrexham locality had a population of 61,603 as defined by the Office for National Statistics; the larger urban area had a population of 65,692, the fourth-largest in Wales.
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Ffrwd Canal, Wrexham.
After several aborted attempts due to bad weather, I finally got to go off and search for the route of the long lost 'canal that went nowhere' - the Ffrwd Canal in North East Wales on 23/August/2015.
The Ffrwd Canal was meant to be the branch of the Ellesmere Canal, serving coal mines and iron works near Wrexham. It was dug in part, as the Ellesmere Canal was meant to pass Wrexham heading for Chester. However, in 1803, the resident engineer William Jessop advised the canal company to abandon its plan to dig from Trevor (Pontcysyllte Aqueduct) to Chester in favour of cutting eastwards to Nantwich to connect with an existing canal to Chester.
Once approved, the Ffrwd Canal was left literally, high & dry, isolated and useless as the main canal line it was supposed to link with didn't happen. What was constructed ended in 1805, the same year the Ellesmere Canal (now Llangollen Canal) and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct were officially opened.
The whole canal was opened by 1813 and became a great commercial success but was no doubt quite the opposite for anyone who invested in the Ffrwd Branch.
There are some records about the canal's history and route, but not many. I decided to follow the canal route as best I could and trace it through the hilly terrain between Gwersyllt and Ffrwd, a hamlet near the village of Cefn y Bedd.
If you are in the Llangollen area of North Wales any time, I recommend this local attraction -