Llangollen
Llangollen is a town as well as community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee at the edge of the Berwyn mountains 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 definition "a religious settlement" and Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk that founded a church next to the river. St Collen is stated to have actually shown up in Llangollen by coracle. There are no other churches in Wales devoted to St Collen, as well as he might have had links with Colan in Cornwall and with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen depends heavily on the vacationer sector, but still gets substantial income from farming. A lot of the ranches in capitals around the town were sheep ranches, as well as the residential woollen sector, both spinning as well as weaving, was important in the area for centuries. Numerous manufacturing facilities were later developed along the banks of the River Dee, where both woollen and cotton were processed. The water mill contrary Llangollen Railway station is over 600 years of ages, and was originally used to grind flour for local farmers.
