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People live and learn on Wat’s Dyke!
Wat’s Dyke was incorporated into Wrexham’s northern suburbs when Garden Village was built in the 1930s. You can follow it in the fence lines of the gardens south of Ty Gwyn Lane and west of Wats Dyke Way. At the top of the hill it separates the Garden Village Playing Field from Wat’s Dyke Primary School.
Heading downhill, the dyke then survives under property boundaries at the back of Buckingham Road before being lost beneath houses closer to Wrexham town. Here we see the bank of the Dyke surviving in the slope from an alley running from Buckingham Road.
These boundaries remind us that Wat’s Dyke was likely originally part of the frontier between early medieval Welsh kingdoms to the west and the territories of the Kingdom of Mercia to the east.
Go North to Wat’s Dyke at Pandy
Go South to Wat’s Dyke at the Football Ground
Access
On foot: by bicycle or mobility scooter via alley from Buckingham Road.
By car: parking on Buckingham Road, 100m walk on paved surface
The Offa's Dyke Collaboratory 