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no cyclevtrails other than the driveway up to castle but nice tearoom.

Great course love Heartbreak Hill 🫶🏻

Erddig is a country house and estate approximately 2 miles south of Wrexham, Wales. It is centred on a country house, which dates principally from between 1684 and 1687, when the central block was built by Joshua Edisbury, and the 1720s, when the flanking wings were added by its second owner, John Meller. It has a wonderful path around the park and estate and is well worth a stop to enjoy its beautiful gardens

With a diverse parkland, Erddig is brimming with grassland, lakes, ponds, rivers, veteran trees and woodland. Discover scenery that ranges from the Clywedog river and peaceful woodland landscape of Big Wood, to famous architectural features like the ‘cup and saucer’ and the dramatic escarpment that leads to Wat’s Dyke. Explore the remains of a Norman motte and bailey castle

Whittington Castle is a castle in northern Shropshire, England, owned and managed by the Whittington Castle Preservation Fund. The castle was originally a motte-and-bailey castle, but this was replaced in the 13th century by one with buildings around a courtyard whose exterior wall was the curtain wall of the inner bailey. As a castle of the Welsh Marches, it was built on the border of Wales and England very close to the historic fort of Old Oswestry.

Spring is a wonderful time to visit the garden at Chirk Castle as fresh buds burst into bloom. The daffodils make a fabulous sight. Varieties include Narcissus cyclamineus and Narcissus King Alfred. One of the best places to spot them is opposite the long border in the meadow area affectionately known as ‘The Daffodil Lawn’, but they can also be seen along Lime Tree Avenue near the Hercules statue from where you’ll also get a fantastic view of the castle.

The figure, commissioned by Sir Robert Myddleton in June 1720, was one of two, the other being Mars, both being sited in the forecourt of the castle flanking the approach to the barbican, and within the iron gates. He is not present in Tilleman's painting of the front of the castle of c1720, but appears in the Badeslade print of 1742. At the re-landscaping of the park in 1770 undertaken by William Emes, a pupil of Launcelot Brown, Hercules was moved to the E arm of Deershed (Deerslidd) Wood and later lost. He was recovered in 1987 and restored, the armature replaced with stainless steel, and resited in the present position on an artificial eminence on the lime avenue on the eastern axis, a vista originally established by Sir Thomas Myddleton in the formal landscaping work of 1653. The sculptor, once believed to be Van Nost, is not recorded.

The Hawk House, Chirk Castle, Wrexham The Hawk House, is a thatched, open-fronted garden house. The original bow-fronted conservatory was converted in 1912 by Lord Howard de Walden into a thatched mews for falcons. This was restored in the 1980's following a fire. Hawk House is within Chirk castle gardens.