A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CLWYD (The), a river of Denbigh. It rises on Broubanog mountain, 7 miles NW of Corwen; makes a semi-circular sweep of about 12 miles southward, eastward, and northward, to Ruthin; and then goes about 19 miles north-north-westward, past Llanynnys, St. Asaph, and Rhyddlan, to the sea at Rhyl. Its course, from above Ruthin, lies along. a fertile, beautiful, romantic vale, called Dyffryn-Clwyd. The Vale of Clwyd railway, from the Chester and Holyhead line, near Rhyl, to Denbigh, was opened in 1858; and a continuation of it, from Denbigh, past Ruthin, to Corwen, was opened in 1864.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Denbighshire AncC |
| Place names: | CLWYD | CLWYD THE | THE CLWYD |
| Place: | Clwyd |
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