Culture and Community
The village has a post office and general stores, and a doctor's surgery. Sports facilities include a pavilion, bowling green, tennis courts and football pitches, and the Wingate Centre, just outside the village, has a 'GymMark'-accredited gymnasium. Local organisations meet at St Margaret's village hall. The mobile library service visits Wrenbury and Wrenbury Heath fortnightly.
The village has two public houses, both of which serve food. The Cotton Arms, named for the Cotton family, is on Cholmondeley Road near the canal. The Dusty Miller occupies a 19th-century corn mill by the canal at Wrenbury Bridge, and is listed in The Good Pub Guide. Facilities for tourists include a caravan site near the canal and the Alvechurch Boat Centre, a boat hire company, which operates from Wrenbury Mill, beside Wrenbury Bridge.
Wrenbury is known for its annual scarecrow trail, which started in 2000. Held the first weekend in July as part of a Summer Fayre, around a hundred and fifty scarecrows were on display in 2006.
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