Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Deer Park Wall
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Chirk Castle
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92775, -3.07923
- Cadw reference
- 20273
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
The wall extends from the the escarpment S of the S drive at Deer Park Lodge, N to Deershed Wood.
History
The wall is probably of the later C17, part of the scheme devised by Sir Thomas Myddleton in 1675 to extend the park to the S and E to hold 500 deer.
Exterior
A boundary wall of rubble stone, with a heavy stone-on-edge coping wider than the wall overhanging both sides. The wall is approximately 2m high, and follows the contour of the ground, but is broken for the driveway.
Reason for designation
Included as a significant element of the late C17 park layout at Chirk, and of group value with Deerpark Lodge.
Nearby in the register
- Deerpark LodgeGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Pont-faen (continued into England)Transportunder 1 mi
- Chirk Castle Gates, Screen and PiersGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Llwyn-y-cil LodgeGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.