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The town has 40,000 inhabitants. Wrexham was formerly one of the most industrialised areas in Wales, with brickworks, steelworks and many coal mines. While all these are now closed, they left their mark. One legacy was the Wrexham area's large and complex network of railways, the main branch being the Wrexham and Minera Branch , which supported the steelworks, the largest village ( Coedpoeth ) and the Minera Limeworks . When the rail network was torn up in the 1960s (and the Minera Branch in the early 1970s) Wrexham began a period of depression: the many coal mines closed first, followed by the brickworks and other industries, and finally the steelworks (which had its own railway branch up until closure) in the 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends. Wrexham faced an economic crisis: its residents wanted to move and sell their homes but buyers were uninterested in an area where there was little employmentEmployment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee . In a commercial setting, the employer conceives of a productive activity, generally with the intention of creating profits, and the employee contribute.

In the 1980s and 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) intervened to improve Wrexham's situation: it funded a major dual carriagewayA dual carriageway is a road or highway with a central barrier or strip of land, known as a central reservation or median separating the two directions of traffic. UK dual carriageway In the U. although the term dual carriageway applies to any road with s bypassing Wrexham and connecting it with ChesterThis article is about Chester in England. For other towns named after Chester see Chester (disambiguation). Chester is the county town of Cheshire in the north-west of England, close to the border with Wales. It is one of the best-preserved walled cities and ShrewsburyThis article is about the town of Shrewsbury in England. For other places of the same name, see Shrewsbury (disambiguation Severn at Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury (pronounced both Shroozbury and Shrowzbury is the county town of the county of Shropshire, England., which in turn had connections with other big citiesA city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. City can also be a synonym for " downtown. Introduction A city usually consists of residential, industrial and business areas; it funded shops and reclaimed areas environmentally damaged by the coal industry. BHS, McDonalds, Game , Burger King, KFC and other major retail chain s came to Wrexham, improving the area's employment prospects. The biggest breakthrough was the Wrexham Industrial Estate , home to many manufacturing businesses including Kellogs. The dual carriageway was expanded halfway to the Estate in 2003, and is expected to reach it by 2006.

In June 2003, the Caia Park estate in Wrexham was hit by riots, after supporters of the British National Party attacked several Iraqi Kurds living in the area, under the misconception that they had been given preferential treatment due to their status as asylum seekers. Police were brought in to the estate, and petrol bombs and other missiles were hurled at them, causing a major riot. Since then, much funding has been put into Caia Park, one of the most deprived areas in Wales, but much of the funding has been put into relatively insignificent and minor projects, considered by many to be a waste of money.

Another recent, but less dangerous conflict was the opposition to the sale of the Nine Acre Field, a small playing field being sold by the local council to boost education funds.

Wrexham is now the largest settlement in North Wales and has been nominated for city status several times, so far unsuccessfully. Its newspapers include The Wrexham Mail and The Wrexham Evening Leader , and radio stations MFM 103.4 and Classic Gold Marcher broadcast to the town.

The town has a football team, Wrexham A.F.C., which competes in the Football League. It also serves as the secondary home of the Llanelli Scarlets, one of the four Welsh professional rugby sides that compete in the Celtic League.

Wrexham's main church, dedicated to St Giles, includes a colourful ceiling of flying musical angels, two early eagle lectern s, a Burne-Jones window, the Royal Welch Fusiliers chapel and the tomb of Elihu Yale, founder of Wrexham's Yale College and benefactor of Connecticut's Yale University. Its tower is one of the ' Seven Wonders of Wales '.

Wrexham is also home to the newest University of Wales college, NEWI