Contents
Wrexham’s history in brief
Trail map hotspots link to webpages about each stop
on trail
The trail in detail, links to each stop on the trail, and
directions on how to follow the trail
Buildings on the trail listed by street address
Download the Pamphlet
Adapted for home printing
4 pages, complete with map; pdf file, 966kb
Links
Wrexham Council’s heritage site
Wrexham History
an excellent site with a lot of information
More about Wrexham’s history.
A short introduction from our main website.
History of coal mining in Wrexham
History Points the link is to a specific building, check list on left of page for other
Wrexham buildings.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following for the help they gave in this project.
Wrexham University for their support
with the design of the leaflet
Wrexham Council for help with planning
the whole project, and promoting it. The Archive / Heritage department, we used some material
from their web pages about Wrexham’s history, and they also supplied many of the images
Wrexham History for supplying pictures of old Wrexham
Alister Williams of Bridge Books
for granting permission to use the Encyclopedia of Wrexham as a source for parts of this trail
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
for granting permission to reproduce Louis Rayner’s painting of Wrexham Church
Wrexham Civic Society
especially Nick Roe for reviewing the draft wording, and for their enthusiastic support
Paul Whitham, for help with the section on St Giles parish church
Dave Bentley of Bentley Printers
for many good suggestions and detailed feedback, as well as getting the printing done
extremely fast when the copy was finally ready!
Many local people who contributed their knowledge, and whose enthusiasm encouraged
us to produce the trail
The map and printed leaflet were designed by:
Alex Johnson
Stephanie Campbell
The leaflet was written by: Ruth Rees and Becca Martin
The website was designed, and is hosted by:
Martin Rees Jewellers who also took the modern
photographs of building on the trail
