Llangollen
Llangollen is a small town and also community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee beside the Berwyn hills 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 spiritual settlement" and Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk who established a church next to the river. St Collen is said to have shown up 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 heavily on the traveler industry, but still gets substantial earnings from farming. Most of the ranches in capitals around the town were sheep ranches, as well as the residential woollen market, both rotating and also weaving, was essential in the location for centuries. Numerous manufacturing facilities were later developed along the financial institutions of the River Dee, where both woollen and also cotton were processed. The water mill opposite Llangollen Railway station mores than 600 years of ages, and was originally made use of to grind flour for regional farmers.
