Gresford

Gresford Welsh: Gresffordd
All Saints' Church, Gresford
Map of the community.
Gresford Location within Wrexham
Population	5,010 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SJ353549
Community	Gresford
Principal area	Wrexham
Preserved county	Clwyd
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WREXHAM
Postcode district	LL12
Dialling code	01978
Police	North Wales
Fire	North Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Wrexham
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Wrexham
List of places UK Wales Wrexham 53°05′13″N 2°57′58″W / 53.087°N 2.966°W / 53.087; -2.966

Gresford (/ˈɡrɛsfərd/; Welsh: Gresffordd Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡrɛsfɔrð]) is a village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.

According to the 2001 Census, the population of the community, which also includes the village of Marford, was 5,334,^[2] reducing to 5,010 at the 2011 census.

The Grade I listed All Saints' Church, Gresford has been described as the finest parish church in Wales, and has the most surviving medieval stained glass of any Welsh church.^[3] Its bells are one of the traditional Seven Wonders of Wales.

The former Gresford Colliery was the site of the Gresford disaster, one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters, when 266 men died in an underground explosion on 22 September 1934.