Corwen`s church is dedicated to St Mael and St Sulien who established a religious community in the area in the 6th Century. The present church dates from the 13th Century and has a Norman font, a dug-out chest and a...

Dinas Bran Castle is a romantic ruin occupying the summit of a steep hill above Llangollen and the Dee Valley. Built about 1260 by Gruffudd ap Madoc on the site of an Iron Age hillfort, it was deliberately burnt and...

The Horseshoe Falls is a picturesque, crescent-shaped weir on the River Dee. Designed by Thomas Telford in the early 19th century, it was built to feed water from the river into the Llangollen Canal, a branch of the Shropshire Union...

Llangollen Motor Museum is housed in an old slate dressing works a short distance out of Llangollen. The museum contains about 60 vehicles ranging from children`s pedal cars and invalid carriages to motorcycles and cars from 1910 to the 1960s....

In Llangollen Museum you can discover the history and legends of this fascinating, small Welsh borderlands town. There are hundreds of artefacts found in the area, ranging from a Bronze Age axe head, Roman pottery, coins, tools, furniture and clothing,...

The Llangollen Railway operates on part of a line that originally ran from Ruabon to Barmouth. It was closed in the 1960s, but now part of the line in the Dee Valley is being gradually restored by a preservation society....

At Llangollen Wharf you can sit and watch the canal boats drift by to and from the marina, then take a leisurely 45 minute horse-drawn boat trip along the beautiful Llangollen Canal. The wharf is also a good starting point...

Llantysilio Mountain is the name given to a range of hills above the Dee Valley that stretch from the Horseshoe Pass to Carrog near Corwen. The highest top, Moel y Gamelin, rises to 1897 feet and offers spectacular views of...

In the late 18th Century, two ladies eloped from Ireland and settled in Llangollen at the house now called Plas Newydd. Their names were Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler, and they developed a passion for collecting wood carvings....

Every year, in the first week of July, Llangollen hosts its famous International Musical Eisteddfod in the Royal Pavilion. Over 2000 competitors from more than fifty countries take part in this festival of music, song and dance. As well as...

St Collen, a hermit from Glastonbury, founded a church at Llangollen in the 6th Century. It is said he killed a man-eating giantess who lived near the Horseshoe Pass. Dating from the 13th Century, the present church has a splendid...