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| Highlights |  | Events
Early spring opening snowdrop weekends. Family events, including living history re-enactments and Family Thursdays in summer school holidays. Lecture programme and escorted walks programme. Christmas at the castle in December. Send sae for details |  | Guided tours
State Room guided tours 11–12 daily on open days. Special interest tours by arrangement (15), Wed–Fri am only. Connoisseurs tour, veteran trees, Head Gardener tour, historic laundry tour |  | Country walks
Circular 1¼ml walk through historic parkland, with ancient trees and wild flowers |
About this property
Completed in 1310, Chirk is the last Welsh castle from the reign of Edward I still lived in today. Features from its 700 years include the medieval tower and dungeon, 18th-century servants' hall and 20th-century laundry. There is also a 17th-century Long Gallery and grand 18th-century state apartments, with elaborate plasterwork, Adam-style furniture, tapestries and portraits. In the award-winning gardens are clipped yews, herbaceous borders and a stunning shrub garden, with many rare varieties. Other areas are more informal, with a thatched 'Hawk House' and rock garden. A terrace with stunning views looks out over the Cheshire and Salop plains and leads to a classical pavilion and 17th-century lime tree avenue. The 18th-century parkland provides a habitat for rare invertebrates and contains many mature trees and also some splendid wrought-iron gates, made in 1719 by the Davies brothers.
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