A map of important historical places around Llangollen.
The Sun Inn and Post Office, Rhewl
One of the ancient drover’s inns in Rhewl, the Sun Inn stands across the road from the 19th century building that was formerly the Post Office...
Valle Crucis Abbey
Founded in the year 1200, when Madoc ap Gruffydd gave the township of Llynegwestl to the monks of Strata Marcella to build the Abbey...
Dinas Brân Castle
It seems most likely that the castle, whose ruins we see today, was built by Gruffydd ap Madoc, Prince of Powys, sometime before his death in 1269...
Llantysilio Hall
The first Llantysilio Hall was built by Thomas Cupper in 1723, but the building that stands today was constructed 150 years later in 1873 by Charles Frederick Beyer...
Llantysilio Church
Llantysiliio Church is dedicated to St Tysilio, a 7th century pilgrim who founded a number of Christian monastic communities in Wales...
Bryntysilio
Bryntysilio was originally a much smaller house, named Braich y Gwynt. Braich y Gwynt first appeared in the records in the 1841 census...
The Chain Bridge and Hotel
The first Chain Bridge was built by local entrepreneur Exuperius Pickering in 1817...
Eliseg’s Pillar
Eliseg, king of Powys in the mid 8th century, won a crucial victory against the English, saving the inheritance of Powys. His great grandson, Cyngen, erected the cross (Eliseg’s Pillar) in the early 9th century...
The Tower
The Tower has late 16th century origins, with early and mid 19th century enlargements and some later alterations...
Dinbren Hall
The present Hall, bearing a date of 1793, is a two storey Georgian country house, but was built on the site of an earlier house...
Llangollen Bridge
The first stone bridge in Llangollen was built by John Trevor, Bishop of St Asaph, in 1345...
St Collen’s Church
It is possible that there has been a church building of some kind on this site in the centre of Llangollen since the foundation by St Collen in the 7th century...
Plas Newydd
Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, arrived from Ireland in 1778. They took a tenancy at Pen-y-Maes (later renamed Plas Newydd), the property of Edward Edwards of Pentrip, in 1780...
Pengwern Hall
Pengwern was an important early medieval settlement, home of the ancestors of the house of Mostyn since well before the 11th century...
Llandyn Hall
The earliest documented mention of Llandyn was in a grant of land in 1345...
Plas yn Vivod
There has been a house on the site of Plas yn Vivod since at least the early 18th century and possibly even before...
Ty’n Dŵr Hall
Originally, the name Ty’n Dwr was held by the cottage (Yew Tree Cottage) that stands just behind the present Hall. The present Hall was built by John Dickin in the 1860s...
Bronheulog
Bronheulog, on Sun Bank Llangollen, was listed in all of the earliest records as part of the Chirk Castle Estate...
Trevor Hall
Trevor Hall was the home of the Trevor family since at least the 14th century, and quite possibly may years before...
Plas yn Pentre
Plas yn Pentre is reputed to have been a Grange belonging to Valle Crucis Abbey...
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
This major feat of civil engineering was designed by Thomas Telford, with the building work supervised by William Jessop...
