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Places to see in ( Llanrwst - UK )

Places to see in ( Llanrwst - UK )

Llanrwst is a small town and community on the A470 road and the River Conwy, in Conwy County Borough, Wales. Llanrwst developed around the wool trade, but also became renowned for harp and clock manufacture.

Today, lying as it does on the edge of Snowdonia (Snowdonia starts about 3/4 mile away on the other side of the river Conwy), its main industry – aside that of being a market town – is tourism.
Notable buildings in Llanrwst include the almshouses, two 17th-century chapels and the Parish Church of St Grwst, which holds the stone coffin of Llywelyn the Great.

The site of the original church dedicated to St Grwst was Cae Llan in Llanrwst (land now occupied by the Seion Methodist Chapel).[4] The current church is on land which was donated in around 1170 by Rhun ap Nefydd Hardd, a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, specifically to build a new church dedicated to Grwst.

Llanrwst developed around the wool trade, and for a long time the price of wool for the whole of Britain was set here. The growth of the town in the 13th century was considerably aided by an edict by Edward I of England (who built Conwy Castle) prohibiting any Welshman from trading within 10 miles (16 km) of the town of Conwy. Llanrwst, located some 13 miles (21 km) from that town, was strategically placed to benefit from this.

Llanrwst lies between 10 and 50 metres (33 and 160 ft) above sea level on the eastern bank of the River Conwy. The A470 trunk route between North and South Wales runs through the town, where it is joined by the A548 main road from Rhyl, Prestatyn and Chester. To the south west of the town is the Gwydir Forest. On the hills above is the Moel Maelogan wind farm; the electricity generated by these turbines is sent to the town's sub-station.

Llanrwst is served by two railway stations, Llanrwst and North Llanrwst, on the Conwy Valley Line (which once terminated here, before being extended to Betws-y-Coed in 1867 and Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1879). It was originally envisaged that the railway would pass closer to the river (on the site of today's Central Garage), and the Victoria Hotel was built opposite the bridge in anticipation of this. Had the railway line been built on the west bank of the River Conwy, as originally planned (to serve the inland port of Trefriw located across the river from Llanrwst), it is unlikely that Llanrwst would ever have achieved its present status.

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North Wales: Country of Poetry

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Armley Mills Museum, Leeds - 29th February, 2012

The Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It includes collections of textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering amongst others.

The Grade II* listed building housing the Armley Mills museum was once the world's largest woollen mill. The current structures were built in 1805 by Benjamin Gott and closed as a commercial mill in 1969. They were taken over by Leeds City Council and reopened as a museum of industrial heritage in 1982.

This video features views around both the museum interior of the exhibits and the exterior of the surrounding area including the River Aire and the bridge to Cardigan Fields leisure complex off Kirkstall Road in Leeds.

Gladstone's Library & St.Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, North Wales

Gladstone's Library, or St.Deiniol's Residential Library, as it was known until 2010, is situated in the village of Hawarden(pronounced Harden), 7 miles from the city of Chester but actually in North Wales. The library was founded in 1895 by the four time victorian Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) in a temporary structure known as the 'tin tabernacle', and Gladstone used his own collection of over 30,000 books to start the project. The books were transported in wheelbarrows from his residence Hawarden Castle at the other end of the village. After his death in 1898, an appeal was set up to build a more permanent building and this was opened in 1902 and an accommodation wing added in 1906. Today the library contains over 200,000 printed articles, has 26 bedrooms and a bistro.
Next door is St.Deiniol's Parish Church. A church has been on this site since the 6th century, but is first recorded in 1180. The church contains the Gladstone Memorial Chapel with recumbent figures of Gladstone and his wife Catherine; and a west window by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones. It has a large churchyard which has a memorial to the Boer War and a grave of a soldier who fought in 4 campaigns of the Crimean War. You may wish to pause to read the inscriptions. Music is by Brian Crain.