Llangollen
Llangollen is a village as well as neighborhood in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee beside the Berwyn mountains and also the Clwydian Range as well as 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 negotiation" as well as Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk that started a church close to the river. St Collen is stated to have actually arrived in Llangollen by coracle. There are nothing else churches in Wales committed to St Collen, and he may have had connections with Colan in Cornwall and with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen depends greatly on the tourist sector, but still gains significant revenue from farming. A lot of the farms in the hills around the town were sheep ranches, and the residential wool sector, both rotating as well as weaving, was necessary in the area for centuries. Numerous factories were later on developed along the banks of the River Dee, where both wool and also cotton were refined. The water mill contrary Llangollen Railway station mores than 600 years old, as well as was initially used to grind flour for local farmers.
