Llangollen
Llangollen is a town 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 settlement" as well as Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk that started a church close to the river. St Collen is stated to have gotten here in Llangollen by coracle. There are no other churches in Wales devoted to St Collen, as well as he may have had connections with Colan in Cornwall as well as with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen counts greatly on the visitor market, however still acquires significant income from farming. Most of the farms in capitals around the community were lamb farms, and also the residential wool sector, both spinning as well as weaving, was necessary in the location for centuries. Numerous factories were later on 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, as well as was originally used to grind flour for local farmers.
