Llangollen
Llangollen is a village and area in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee at the edge of the Berwyn hills and also the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley AONB. It had a population of 3,658 at the 2011 census. Llangollen takes its name from the Welsh llan significance "a religious settlement" and also Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk that founded a church next to the river. St Collen is claimed to have arrived in Llangollen by coracle. There are nothing else churches in Wales dedicated to St Collen, and he may have had connections with Colan in Cornwall as well as with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen depends heavily on the tourist sector, yet still gains significant income from farming. Most of the farms in the hills around the town were sheep ranches, and also the residential woollen sector, both rotating and also weaving, was very important in the area for centuries. Several manufacturing facilities were later developed along the financial institutions of the River Dee, where both wool and cotton were refined. The water mill opposite Llangollen Railway station is over 600 years of ages, and was originally made use of to grind flour for local farmers.
