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Ornate gates, Chirk Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Wrexham, Wales. Perhaps the gates still judge visitors by the shape of their shadows before they judge the shape of their requests. Maybe a keeper once lived inside the gate room, listening for the difference between a knocking human and a knocking animal. Imagine the brass working smooth under tired palms, the whole castle holding its breath until the gates admit what they understand.

A named place photographed at this map point in Wrexham.

Chirk Castle, located near Wrexham in Wales, was built in the late 13th century by the influential Clwyd family, later held by the Mytton family in the 17th century. It is remembered for its well-preserved medieval architecture and its ornate gates, which are among the finest surviving examples of 17th-century ironwork in Britain.