Historic sites

Erddig

United Kingdom Wrexham Wrexham

Erddig
Photo: Glen Bowman from Newcastle, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A country house that tells the story of the people who worked as well as lived in it: the Yorke family painted and wrote poems about their servants, and their portraits hang in the servants' hall. Kitchens, laundry, bakehouse and workshops are all on show.


The 18th-century walled garden has rare fruit trees, and the park has walks along the River Clywedog.

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