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Wrexham people shop, go to college, grow vegetables and even bury and commemorate their dead along Wat’s Dyke!
The Dyke runs south from Morrisons supermarket between allotments and houses to the east and Coleg Cambria to the west. It then served as the original western boundary of Wrexham Cemetery, opened in 1876.
Today, Wat’s Dyke can still be seen running through the middle of the burial ground, the ditch marked by a path, and a striking array of late Victorian tombs on top of the bank. The Dyke provided a suitable landscape feature in a Victorian garden cemetery.
Two cemetery paths cross the dyke and its course is today marked with bilingual markers. Archaeologists and historians are interested in the different ways the dyke is remembered in different places. Why is it marked here on the cemetery sign and on the paths, but not where Wat’s Dyke runs past Morrisons or next to the allotments?
Go North to Wat’s Dyke at the Football Ground
Go South to Wat’s Dyke at Court Wood
Access
On foot and mobility scooter: enter via Bersham Road or Ruabon Road gates. Bicycles must be walked through the cemetery, not ridden.
By car: on-road parking at Bersham Road entrance, 500 m walk on paved surface; limited parking at Ruabon Road entrance, 50m walk.
The Offa's Dyke Collaboratory 