Wrexham (gbr)

Wrexham

Wrexham ranks 2,334th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ventura, California, Woking, and Levallois-Perret. Memorable people born in Wrexham include C. H. Dodd, Danny Ward, and Harry Wilson. Memorable people who died in Wrexham include Kathleen Kenyon, Ken Matthews, and Gerry Byrne. Wrexham has been the birth place of many soccer players, and philosophers and the death place of many archaeologists, and athletes. Wrexham is located in United Kingdom.

Wrexham is a city in the north-east of Wales. It lies between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley, near the border with Cheshire in England. Historically in the county of Denbighshire, it became part of the new county of Clwyd in 1974. It has been the principal settlement and administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough since 1996. At the 2021 census, the built up area had a population of 44,785, and the wider county borough, which also includes surrounding villages and rural areas, had a population of 135,117. Wrexham was awarded city status in 2022. Read more on Wikipedia