Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Town Reservoir
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llwyn-y-cil, Wrexham, Chirk, designated on 29 July 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Llwyn-y-cil
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93140, -3.06879
- Cadw reference
- 20254
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The reservoir is in Reservoir Wood, S of Station Avenue, and E of the S extension of Llwyn-y-cil Road to the caravan park.
History
The reservoir was constructed for Lady Charlotte Myddleton in c1824 as an important element in her plan to improve the conditions of the inhabitants of Chirk, most of whom were tenants of Chirk Castle.
Exterior
The reservoir consists of a circular pit, approximately 2.0m deep, sunk into the hilltop outside the park gate, providing a gravity fall of approximately 18m to the centre of the town. It is constructed with stone walls approximately 1m thick, set in puddled clay. The diameter is c10m. There is no surviving evidence for the intake or draw off pipework, nor of any possible cover.
Reason for designation
Included as an interesting and early example of a town water system built under estate patronage.
Nearby in the register
- Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and PiersGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Llwyn-y-cil LodgeGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- WhitewallsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Chirk Tunnel, including the N and S Portals, and Chirk Basin.Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.