World's End, Wrexham

World's End (Welsh: "Pen Draw'r Byd") (gbmapping|SJ232477) is the name given to a mountainous and woodland area between Wrexham and Llangollen in North Wales at the cliffs of "Craig y Forwyn".

The area is very popular with walkers, cyclists and tourists and provides spectacular scenery at all times of the year. [cite web |url=http://www.geoffspages.co.uk/camerawalks/worldsend/index.htm |title=A walk to World's End |accessdate=2008-01-29]

World's End lies on a single track road from the small village of Minera near Wrexham which crosses Eglwyseg mountain that brings you to a public car park at the top of the valley. The road goes on towards Pentre Dŵr, under the Horseshoe Pass, leading eventually to Llangollen or onto the Panorama in Trevor.

At the northern end of the Eglwyseg valley, at World’s End, lies the impressive timber-framed manor house "Plas Ucha yn Eglwyseg" which bears a date of 1563. It was for a time the home of John Jones, Maesygarnedd, one of the signatories of the death warrant for Charles I. [cite book |title= We go to Wales|last=Raymond |first=David |year=1954 |publisher=George G Harrap & Co Ltd |chapter=Chapter III] The building stands on the site of a hunting lodge belonging to Owain ap Cadwgan, prince of Powys: it is to Plas Ucha yn Eglwyseg that Owain carried Nest (daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr) when he stole her away from her husband Gerald de Windsor in 1109.

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