Wrexham

Wrexham (pronounced 'Recsam', and in Welsh spelt Wrecsam) is an industrial town in north Wales. It is the main town in the county borough of Wrexham and lies within the traditional borders of Denbighshire.

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The local authority has around 125,000 inhabitants and the town itself has a population of around 40,000.

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Wrexham was formerly one of the most industrialised areas in North Wales, with brickworks, steelworks and many coal mines. While all these are now closed, they left their mark. One legacy was the Wrexham area's large and complex network of railways, the main branch being the Wrexham and Minera Branch, which supported the steelworks, the largest village (Coedpoeth) and the Minera Limeworks. When the rail network was torn up in the 1960s (and the Minera Branch in the early 1970s) Wrexham began a period of depression: the many coal mines closed first, followed by the brickworks and other industries, and finally the steelworks (which had its own railway branch up until closure) in the 1980s. Wrexham faced an economic crisis: with residents anxious to sell their homes and move to areas with better employment prospects, but buyers were uninterested in an area where there was little employment. Many people were caught in a negative equity trap.

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