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Streets

9 November 2025

Park Avenue

Park Avenue is a group of council houses that were built around 1920...

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Streets

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Princess Street

The 1862 sale map proposed that this road would be called ‘Queen Street’. By the…

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Queen Street looking towards Regent Street

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Queen Street

The name of this road has been London Road, Salop Road and Chirk Road, the…

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Streets

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Regent Street

Regent Street, now a major road in Llangollen, did not exist until after 1815...

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Streets

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West Street

The earliest houses built on West Street were No’s 16 and 18, which were built…

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Stories, Myths & Legends Stories of Llangollen

9 November 2025

The Barber of Llangollen

The tale of the Barber of Llangollen starts in what is now the garden of…

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Stories of Llangollen Stories, Myths & Legends

9 November 2025

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary…

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Battle with the Giantess of Bwlch y Rhiw Felen

Stories, Myths & Legends Legends of St Collen

9 November 2025

The Giantess of Bwlch y Rhiw Felen

The story goes that there was a giantess who used to eat everyone that went…

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Stories, Myths & Legends Stories of Llangollen

8 November 2025

Thomas Jones’ Will

Thomas Pennant, in his tour of 1773, refers to the House of Llantysilio as being…

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Letter from Llangollen Council to Miss E.A. Anderson about Croes y Gwenhwyfar

Stories, Myths & Legends Stories of Llangollen

8 November 2025

Croes y Gwenhwyfar

W.T. Simpson in his account of Llangollen in 1827 remarks that 'On the north side…

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Stories, Myths & Legends Stories of Llangollen

8 November 2025

King Arthur

There are a number of links that have been proposed between the Llangollen area and…

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Corn Milling Industry

8 November 2025

Llangollen Mill

Llangollen Mill was a corn mill originally built by the Cistercian monks of Valle Crucis…

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Industry Corn Milling

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Pentrefelin Mill

Pentrefelin Mill was the medieval corn mill of Valle Crucis Abbey. It was recorded in…

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Industry Corn Milling

8 November 2025

Eglwyseg Mill

With it’s leet, mill pond and overshot water wheel, Melin Eglwyseg was typical of many…

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Industry Corn Milling

8 November 2025

Rhewl Mill

The corn mill in Rhewl belonged to the Edwards family in the middle of the…

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Industry Fulling and Textile Mills

8 November 2025

Pandy

Pandy is a 20th century building adjacent to the site of the original fulling mill…

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Industry Fulling and Textile Mills

8 November 2025

Hen Bandy

Hen Bandy (Old Fulling Mill) can be identified in the records of 1719 but even…

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Looking at the Lower Dee Mill from the garden of the Hand Hotel.

Industry Fulling and Textile Mills

8 November 2025

Dee Mills

Cotton came to Llangollen in 1805 when Lower Dee Mill was built, but only lasted…

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Industry Fulling and Textile Mills

8 November 2025

Mile End Mill

Mile End Mill after a fire that happened shortly before Christmas 1907. Another fire at…

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Industry Other Industries

8 November 2025

The Old Tannery

Sited on the location of a former woollen mill, the buildings behind Church St were…

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Industry Other Industries

8 November 2025

Cowards Timber Yard

It is not known exactly when Coward's timber yard first opened, but by 1891 the…

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