Llangollen
Llangollen is a small town and also area in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee beside the Berwyn hills as well as 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" and Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk that started a church next to the river. St Collen is said to have arrived in Llangollen by coracle. There are no other churches in Wales committed to St Collen, as well as he might have had connections with Colan in Cornwall and with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen relies greatly on the tourist industry, however still gets considerable earnings from farming. A lot of the farms in the hills around the community were lamb ranches, as well as the domestic wool market, both spinning as well as weaving, was very important in the area for centuries. Several manufacturing facilities were later built along the financial institutions of the River Dee, where both woollen and also cotton were refined. The water mill opposite Llangollen Railway station mores than 600 years of ages, and also was initially made use of to grind flour for neighborhood farmers.
