Look local: Warm people of Wrexham

Wrexham is the largest town in North Wales, enjoying a privileged location between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley by the border with Shropshire. Chester is only a 15-minute drive away and the cities of Manchester and Liverpool are under an hour’s distance by car.

Once a thriving mining town, the last pit shut in 1986. Today, visitors can enjoy many attractions from taking a canal boat along the 200-year-old Pontcysyllte Aqueduct; visiting the 13th century Valley Crucis Abbey or the spectacular National Trust Erddig Hall; going to the Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse or immersing themselves in some retail therapy in the town’s shopping centre – which retains its ‘olde-worlde’ charm.