General Market

The market is situated on the former site known as "Manchester Square", which held an open market for out-of-town traders, particularly those from Manchester selling textiles, during annual fairs in the town. The site was also home to a smaller building housing a "Potato Market", and a music hall, with both demolished in the 1870s. in 1982.]] The General Market was opened in 1879, However, the introduction of rationing in the United Kingdom during World War II in 1939 and new hygiene regulations caused the market to be converted into a "general market", with the tradition of selling farmhouse butter greatly reduced. There are no remains of "Manchester Square" nor of many of the Victorian…

The market has entrances via Henblas Street, Henblas Square and Chester Street. The main building and the shops located around its exterior are Grade II listed buildings. The market contains around 20 stalls, including for clothing, food, florists and greengrocers, and is the smallest of Wrexham's markets, with the other markets being the Butcher's Market and Tŷ Pawb (previously the People's Market). The building is made of a top-lit market hall, with a row of six shops along the building's front with Henblas Street (such as 21 to 29a Henblas Street), and a public toilet on its south-eastern corner. The market's main entrance, facing at an angle south-west towards the Butcher's Market, has…