Erddig recounts the 250-year tale of a gentry family’s connection with its servants from a spectacular cliff above the meandering Clywedog river.
A vast collection of photographs of servants and meticulously maintained apartments depict their life in the early twentieth century, while above is a treasure trove of exquisite furniture, fabrics, and wallpapers. A completely restored 18th-century garden with trained fruit trees, exuberant annual herbaceous borders, avenues of pleached limes, formal hedges, and a nationally significant collection of ivies can be found outside.
William Emes’ 486-hectare (1,200-acre) landscape pleasure park is a sanctuary of quiet and natural beauty, ideal for riverbank picnics. Explore the earthworks of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle or the ‘cup and saucer’ cylindrical cascade. A stroll around the estate takes you from Wrexham’s humble beginnings to the technology of an 18th-century planned environment. Tenant farmers all across the place are carrying on the labour of previous generations.
