Llangollen
Llangollen is a town and also community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee at the edge of the Berwyn hills as well as the Clwydian Range and also 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" as well as Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk that founded a church beside the river. St Collen is stated to have actually gotten here in Llangollen by coracle. There are no other churches in Wales devoted to St Collen, and also he may have had links with Colan in Cornwall and also with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen depends greatly on the vacationer sector, however still gains significant revenue from farming. Most of the farms in capitals around the community were lamb ranches, and also the residential woollen market, both spinning as well as weaving, was essential in the location for centuries. Several manufacturing facilities were later on constructed along the banks of the River Dee, where both woollen and cotton were refined. The water mill opposite Llangollen Railway station mores than 600 years old, as well as was originally used to grind flour for regional farmers.
