Llangollen
Llangollen is a town and also neighborhood 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 negotiation" and Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk who established a church next to the river. St Collen is stated to have actually gotten here in Llangollen by coracle. There are no other churches in Wales dedicated to St Collen, and he may have had connections with Colan in Cornwall and with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen counts heavily on the visitor sector, however still obtains significant revenue from farming. The majority of the farms in the hills around the town were sheep farms, and the residential wool sector, both rotating and weaving, was very important in the area for centuries. Several factories were later on developed along the banks of the River Dee, where both wool as well as cotton were processed. The water mill opposite Llangollen Railway station mores than 600 years of ages, and also was initially used to grind flour for local farmers.