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Chirk Castle © Crown copyright (2013) Visit Wales

The border town of Chirk stands on the escarpment above the point at which the rivers Ceiriog and Dee meet. The name Chirk is thought to be an English corruption of the name 'Ceiriog', but we think it comes from the word 'Church' as the original Welsh name for the town was 'Eglwys-y-Waun' or 'Church on the Moor' (now shortened to Y Waun (The Moor)). Chirk's strategic position gave rise to a motte and bailey castle built by the Normans in the early 12th Century. In 1310, the Marcher fortress of Chirk Castle

In the 19th century vital road, rail and canal links were developed. Chirk became a staging post on the London to Holyhead mail road, whilst the Llangollen branch of the Shropshire Union Canal reached Chirk in 1801. The Llangollen canal is perhaps Britain's most popular cruising canal and Chirk Marina is well situated between Thomas Telford's two magnicient aqueducts at Chirk and at Pontcysyllte . It is possible to walk across both aqueducts if you have a head for heights. Chirk Aqueduct built between 1796

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