Corwen
Corwen is a town and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. Historically, Corwen was part of the county of Merionethshire. Corwen stands on the banks of the River Dee beneath the Berwyn mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 477 residents
- Description: town and community in Denbighshire, Wales
- Postal code: LL21
Places of Interest
Highlights include Caer Drewyn and Llangar Old Church.
Caer Drewyn
Archaeological site
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caer Drewyn is an early Iron Age hillfort to the north of the town of Corwen, Denbighshire. It has a large stone rampart with entrances on the west and north sides; there is a guard chamber within the north-east entrance, and it has a deep defensive ditch.
Llangar Old Church
Church
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llangar Church, or All Saints Old Parish Church, Llangar, was formerly the parish church of Llangar with Cynwyd, in the Dee Valley, Denbighshire, North Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cynwyd and Carrog.
Cynwyd
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cynwyd is a small village and community in the Edeirnion area of Denbighshire in Wales, located about 2 miles south west of the town of Corwen. It had a population of 528 in 2001, increasing to 542 at the census 2011, and is home to a large factory, run by Ifor Williams Trailers.
Carrog
Village
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carrog is a village in Denbighshire, Wales, near Corwen. Formerly referred to as Llansanffraid-Glyn Dyfrdwy, as it lies within the parish of Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy, it takes its modern name from the Great Western Railway station on the opposite bank of the River Dee, which in turn took its name from the Carrog estate on that bank.
Rhug
Locality
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Rhug is a township in the parish of Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales, formerly in the old cantref of Edeirnion and later a part of Merionethshire, two miles from Corwen and ten miles north east of Bala.
Corwen
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Denbighshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.9805° or 52° 58′ 50″ northLongitude
-3.3732° or 3° 22′ 23″ westPopulation
477Elevation
558 feet (170 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ORWOpen location code
9C4RXJJG+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 29779337OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Corwen” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Corwen”
- Basque: “Corwen”
- Breton: “Corwen”
- Bulgarian: “Коруен”
- Catalan: “Corwen”
- Cebuano: “Corwen”
- Chinese: “Corwen”
- Chinese: “科文”
- Cornish: “Corwen”
- Czech: “Corwen”
- Dutch: “Corwen”
- French: “Corwen”
- German: “Corwen”
- Irish: “Corwen”
- Italian: “Corwen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Corwen”
- Northern Sami: “Corwen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Corwen”
- Norwegian: “Corwen”
- Persian: “کورون”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Corwen”
- Slovak: “Corwen”
- Spanish: “Corwen”
- Swedish: “Corwen”
- Welsh: “Corwen”
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