Town Reservoir is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1998. Reservoir.
Town Reservoir
- WRENN ID
- keen-baluster-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1998
- Type
- Reservoir
- Address
- Town Reservoir, Llwyn-Y-Cil, Chirk
- OS grid reference
- SJ 282 376
- Coordinates
- 52.93142, -3.06878
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Town Reservoir is a circular pit, about 2.0 meters deep, located on a hilltop outside the park gate. It provides a gravity fall of approximately 18 meters to the center of the town. The reservoir features stone walls that are approximately 1 meter thick, constructed with puddled clay. The diameter of the reservoir is around 10 meters. There is no remaining evidence of the intake or draw-off pipework, nor of any possible cover.
Local climate
Town Reservoir receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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