Town Hill

Town Hill (Welsh: Allt y Dref) is a street in Wrexham city centre, North Wales. It contains the listed buildings of Nos. 5, 7, and 9. The street is located on higher ground, just to the north of St Giles' Church. It forms a cross-roads junction at the centre of Wrexham with Church Street, High Street and Hope Street. It is now at the centre of Wrexham's nightlife district. The street was in medieval times possibly home to burgess plots, with houses and shops. In the 17th century it was referred to as Bridge Street (which now refers to an adjacent street), then later sometimes classed as part of neighbouring High Street. The earliest mention of the name Town Hill is to 1801. Town Hill was also the site of Wrexham's old town hall (or shire hall), dating from a 16th-century building, which was then re-built in the 18th century. The old town hall and buildings along its adjacent Back Chamber Street, were demolished in 1940 as part of a widening of Town Hill to alleviate traffic congestion, likely due to nearby High Street serving as the town's then bus terminal. The site where the town hall stood is now a widened section of Town Hill between the cross-roads junction and the junction with Abbot Street.