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Chirk

Small town in the county borough of Wrexham, northeast Wales, 15 km/9 mi south of the town of Wrexham; population (2001) 4,400. Chirk Castle, home of the Myddleton family, was originally built in the 11th century. The castle was rebuilt in the 14th century and restored in the 17th century. The Llangollen Canal goes over the striking Chirk Aqueduct nearby.

Collieries in the surrounding area are no longer in operation.



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It is accented by the little noises that, compounded, make up the so-called silence of the country: the chirk of a colony of katydids sliced by the more strident sawing of a distant cicada, the staccato scolding of a red squirrel infuriated by a gray cousin, and the wash of the wind through the roadside maples.
Plunderers in Paradise by MEYER, ERNEST L. / The Progressive
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