Chirk Voyage Tips and guide

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• Chirk Visitor information website

Chirk is on the A5 London to Holyhead trunk road, close to its junction with the A483 Swansea to Chester road.

• 52.932984-3.0659951 Chirk station is on the Shrewsbury to Chester line. Arriva Trains Wales operate direct services to Chirk from Cardiff, Shrewsbury, Chester, Wrexham, Holyhead.

Chirk Marina is located on the Llangollen branch of the Shropshire Union Canal.

52°55′49″N 3°3′1″W

Map of Chirk

• 52.935-3.089721 Chirk Castle (Castell y Waun), Chirk, LL14 5AF, ☏ +44 1691 777701, fax: +44 1691 774706, [email protected]. Generally open in summer and December, with restricted opening at other times; check website. This magnificent late 13th-century castle is the last of its era in Wales still to be lived in. Look out for the imposing wrought iron gates. Apart from the castle, the gardens are a popular visitor attraction. £16 adult, £8 child.  
• 52.9287-3.06162 Chirk Aqueduct. 70-foot-high (21 m) high and 710-foot-long (220 m) navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley  
• 52.915-3.1973 The Ceiriog Valley (Dyffryn Ceiriog). This beautiful valley follows the Afon Ceiriog river from its source in the Berwyn Mountains, 18 miles to its confluence with the River Dee at Chirk. Former UK Prime Minister (from 1916–22) David Lloyd-George described the valley as "A little bit of heaven on Earth", and it has changed little since his time. Despite its proximity to the A5, one of the main tourist routes into North Wales, the valley is little-known and rarely visited.  

• 52.940345-3.0574851 Starfish, 25 West View, ☏ +44 1691 774569. Fish & chips. (updated Nov 2016)

• 52.932442-3.0565791 The Hand Hotel, Church St, ☏ +44 1691 773472. 
• 52.92087-3.0451952 Moreton Park Hotel, Moreton Business Park, ☏ +44 1691 776666. 

• Oswestry
• Ellesmere
• Llangollen

Snowdonia ← Llangollen ←	NW  S	→ Oswestry → Shrewsbury
Chester ← Wrexham ←	N  S	→ merges with