Llangollen
Llangollen is a town as well as neighborhood in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, on the River Dee at the edge of the Berwyn hills and the Clwydian Range and 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 settlement" and Saint Collen, a 6th-century monk that established a church beside the river. St Collen is stated to have actually shown up in Llangollen by coracle. There are no other churches in Wales dedicated to St Collen, as well as he might have had connections with Colan in Cornwall as well as with Langolen in Brittany. Today Llangollen counts heavily on the visitor industry, however still gets considerable revenue from farming. Most of the ranches in the hills around the community were lamb farms, as well as the domestic wool sector, both spinning and weaving, was important in the location for centuries. Numerous factories were later on developed along the financial institutions of the River Dee, where both wool as well as cotton were processed. The water mill opposite Llangollen Railway station is over 600 years old, and was initially used to grind flour for regional farmers.
