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.- Type: Town with 477 residents
- Description: town and community in Denbighshire, Wales
- Postal code: LL21
Places of Interest
Highlights: Caer Drewyn and Llangar Old Church.
Caer Drewyn
Archaeological site
Caer Drewyn is an early Iron Age hillfort to the north of the town of Corwen, Denbighshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cynwyd and Carrog.
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″ north
Longitude
-3.3732° or 3° 22′ 23″ west
Population
477
Elevation
558 feet (170 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB ORW
Open location code
9C4RXJJG+5P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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: “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”
- “Corwen”
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