Comic Panel 2
Wat’s Dyke rubs shoulders with Wrexham’s industrial heritage at Pandy close to the former Gresford Colliery.
The Dyke is lost where destroyed by the Wrexham-Chester railway line at the junction of Plas Acton Road and Blue Bell Lane. Yet, we encounter it surviving in the fields to the south where the public footpath forms part of the long-distance walking trail: the Wat’s Dyke Way. To the south, it has been destroyed by the building of the A483 and Ty Gwyn Lane.
Local people are shown walking their dogs along Wat’s Dyke here, but do they spot the traces of the early medieval linear earthwork?
In many places around Wrexham, Wat’s Dyke has been damaged or destroyed by later roads, buildings and construction. Sometimes only the bank survives, sometimes the ditch, sometimes neither. Despite this damage, archaeologists refer to Wat’s Dyke as a ‘linear earthwork’ because originally the bank was made of packed earth and stones, and it ran in a long, continuous line.
Go North to Wat’s Dyke at the River Alyn
Go South to Wat’s Dyke at the School
Access
On foot: via Blue Bell Lane and footpath. No bicycles or mobility scooter access.
By car: parking on Blue Bell Lane, 500m walk on grass.
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