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Borras, Wrexham — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Borras is a hamlet north-east of the city of Wrexham, in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, and part of the community of Holt.
About Borras
Where to stay in Borras
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Beds are a Wrexham matter here. Borras is a hamlet, so a stay means the city of Wrexham itself, or the community of Holt, with Pant-yr-Ochain the nearest name worth steering by. Travellers with a car have the advantage, since everything the hamlet lacks sits inside the city rather than at Borras.
Wrexham County Borough surrounds it.
About Borras
What are the main landmarks in Borras?
Pant-yr-Ochain is the single entry. Nothing else in the record of Borras carries a name of its own, so the hamlet stands with one landmark where a town of any size would hold a page of them. Beyond that one name, Borras goes quiet.
Anyone after more to look at crosses into the city of Wrexham, or turns instead towards Holt, the community that Borras forms part of within Wrexham County Borough.
What is the history of Borras?
Borras keeps almost no written history. The sources give a hamlet, a position north-east of the city of Wrexham, and membership of the community of Holt, which is the whole of what can be said with confidence about how the place came to be. Pant-yr-Ochain is the one exception.
It carries the only landmark name attached to Borras, and the wider frame is Wrexham County Borough in Wales, the administrative setting the hamlet sits inside.
Where is Borras?
The hamlet occupies ground north-east of Wrexham inside Wrexham County Borough, with Pant-yr-Ochain the one named landmark on its register.
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Updated September 2026