Just south of Wrexham town centre, Erddig, a National Trust property, was home to the Yorke family until 1973.

Wrexham has three parks, Bellevue Park, Acton Park, and Erddig Park with a green area within the town centre called Llwyn Isaf.

These include a hydraulic ram known as the ' Cup and Saucer ' which is used to pump water from the park to Erddig Hall, and the remains of Wristleham motte and bailey which is thought to be the beginnings of Wrexham as a town in the 12th century.

Wrexham constituency consists of the following electoral wards: Acton, Borras Park, Brynyffynnon, Cartrefle, Erddig, Garden Village, Gresford East and West, Grosvenor, Gwersyllt East and South, Gwersyllt North, Gwersyllt West, Hermitage, Holt, Little Acton, Llay, Maesydre, Marford and Hoseley, Offa, Queensway, Rhosnesni, Rossett, Smithfield, Stansty, Whitegate, Wynnstay.

However the first known settlement was known as Wristleham Castle, a motte and bailey located in what is now known as Erddig Park, established in 1161.

There are further plans, one of which is the development of National Trust land at Erddig for over 250 homes.

Erddig Park is situated two miles ( 3 km ) south of the town centre where the town meets the Clywedog Valley.

The park is owned and managed by the National Trust, and is home to Erddig Hall and its formal gardens.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

In her article for Atlantic Monthly about Skull and Bones, Alexandra Robbins alleges that the gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen years ago from its proper setting in Wrexham, and is displayed in a glass case, in a room with purple walls, which belongs to a building called the Tomb of the Skull and Bones at Yale University.

The difficulty of the manufacture of a large cylinder with a tightly fitting piston was solved by John Wilkinson who had developed precision boring techniques for cannon making at Bersham, near Wrexham, North Wales.

Telford's reputation in Shropshire led to his appointment in 1793 to manage the detailed design and construction of the Ellesmere Canal, linking the ironworks and collieries of Wrexham via the north-west Shropshire town of Ellesmere, with Chester, utilising the existing Chester Canal, and then the River Mersey.

These include the professional football ( soccer ) clubs Bristol City, Swindon Town, Cheltenham Town ( whose home colours are red ) and, traditionally, Wrexham FC, as well as the English Rugby League team Hull Kingston Rovers ( whose home colours are white with a red band ).

The 2007 – 08 season produced more of the same, with the club involved in another relegation battle with strugglers Chester City, Wrexham and Mansfield Town.

Dee 106. 3 is the city's radio station, with Heart Wrexham and BBC Radio Merseyside also broadcasting locally.

The original plan to complete the Ellesmere Canal was to connect Chester directly to the Wrexham coalfields by building a broad-gauge waterway with a branch to the River Dee at Holt.

Twinning with Wrexham County Borough ( Wales, United Kingdom ) dates from 1970 and was initiated by the precursor district, Iserlohn.

This restored direct London services to Shropshire ( Wrexham already being served by a Virgin Trains service to Euston ), with five return trips per day on weekdays.

On 15 December 2008 a Wrexham to London Euston service was introduced operating south in the morning with an evening return.

However, the last derby match took place on 10 February 2002 and with Stoke City in the Premier League, rivalry has increased between Port Vale and other local clubs, namely Burton Albion, Macclesfield Town, Shrewsbury Town, Walsall, Wrexham, and Crewe Alexandra.

On May 1, 2003, Marek won Wrexham with 6, 539 votes or 37. 7 % of the vote.

The Ladies will be playing in the North Wales Women's Football League along with teams such as Wrexham Ladies, Caenarfon and Llandudno Junction, for the first time in 2011 / 12.

1999 saw the Dragons become the first League of Wales outfit to win the FAW Premier Cup, with a 2 – 1 win over Wrexham at the club's own Racecourse Ground.

Neston railway station is situated on the Borderlands Line, providing direct services southbound to Wrexham, Flintshire and northbound to Bidston in Birkenhead, with connecting services to the Merseyrail network.

The airline carried out trials with its Helicopter Experiment Unit, operating mail services in East Anglia during 1948 and a passenger service from Cardiff via Wrexham to Liverpool ( Speke ) Airport in 1950.

In 2005, The Wales College of Medicine, which is part of the University, launched the North Wales Clinical School in Wrexham in collaboration with the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham and the University of Wales, Bangor and with the National Health Service in Wales.

Whitchurch is a crossroads for roads from Wrexham, Nantwich, Chester and Shrewsbury with the A41 / A49 bypass opening in 1992.

There were worries that if Arriva Trains Wales were granted this service, it would push Wrexham – London operator Wrexham & Shropshire out of business, with Wrexham & Shropshire Managing Director, Andy Hamilton, saying " We believe that this proposal – if approved – would push the date of profitability of WSMR by at least a year.

The Racecourse is situated on the Mold Road, which is the main road heading into Wrexham, and is opposite the residential area of Maesgwyn, next to Glyndŵr University ; who owns the freehold to the stadium and have added their name to it.

Both townships were later transferred to Wrexham County Borough following local government reorganisation.

Nearly 20 years later, Rush and Sear worked together on the coaching staff at Wrexham.

He had a loan spell with Sheffield United later in the season, before leaving St James's Park in the summer of 1998 to sign, amid much fanfare, for Wrexham.

Wrexham Olympic was formed one month later and renamed Wrexham in 1886.

Crowd trouble at the game led to the club being disbanded, although a new club, Wrexham Olympic, was formed a month later and which reverted to the original name after three years.

The 5 – 0 defeat did not spoil the occasion for the large home crowd, and later that season Wrexham managed to win the Welsh Cup for the first time in 26 years.

On the 10 May 2011 Wrexham played their second play-off game: Wrexham went 1 – 0 up after Andy Mangan scored in the 8th minute, Gareth Taylor later missed a penalty, Luton went on to win 5 – 1 on aggregate.

He was later selected to stand for the UK Parliament in Wrexham, and won the seat in 2001.

It corresponds approximately to the later parishes of Bersham, Erbistock, Marchwiel, Ruabon and Wrexham in the historic county of Denbighshire which was created in 1536.

The station originally broadcast from studios at Parc Menai in Bangor, Gwynedd ( later sharing facilities with Heart North Wales Coast ) before co-locating to the studios of Heart North West and Wales in Wrexham.

Regional opt-outs were later established for sports coverage, specifically live football commentaries involving Cardiff City in the South East, Swansea City in the South West and Wrexham in the North.

The last surviving independent local company, Wright & Son, ran a service from Penycae to Wrexham via Rhos, and later via Ponciau also.

Speed was later cremated in Pentre Bychan Crematorium, Wrexham.

For the 1983 general election, major boundary reorganisation saw large areas removed from the Wrexham constituency to form the new constituency of Clwyd South West ( later to become Clwyd South ).

Law followed just a handful of previous MPs and AMs in Wales who won the same constituency as both a party candidate and an independent, following S. O. Davies who was MP for Merthyr Tydfil from 1934 until his death in 1972, who was deselected by the local Labour Party on grounds of age prior to the 1970 general election but ran against the official candidate as an independent and won ; and John Marek who remained AM for Wrexham, later forming his own party, Forward Wales.

His father was a British army officer who served in northwest India and later ran pharmacies around the Wrexham area.

Crusaders Rugby League () were a professional rugby league club based in Bridgend and later in Wrexham, Wales.

He never made an appearance for the Liverpool senior team, and spent loan spells at Chester City abd Wrexham ; he later played for Scunthorpe United before retiring due to injury in 2007.

On 19 October 2001, Jackson moved to Wigan Athletic on a month's loan from Norwich, making his debut a day later in a 3 – 2 defeat against Wrexham.

Three days later, he scored his first goal of the season in the 2 – 0 League Cup first round win against Wrexham.

Flynn later played for Doncaster Rovers, Bury and Wrexham.