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CORWEN (" the white choir ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORWEN (" the See also:white See also:choir ")  , a See also:market See also:town of Merionethshire, See also:Wales, on branches of the See also:London & See also:North Western and the See also:Great Western See also:railways; ro m. from See also:Llangollen, through the Glyn Dyfrdwy (See also:Dee Vale) . Pop . (1901) 2680 . See also:Telford's road, raised on the See also:lower Berwyn range See also:side and overlooking the Dee, opens up the picturesqueness of See also:Corwen, historically interesting from the reminiscences of Wales's last struggle for See also:independence under See also:Owen See also:Glendower . In the old See also:parish See also:church was traditionally Owen's See also:pew; his See also:knife, See also:fork and See also:dagger, are at the neighbouring See also:Rug (Rhiig) ; his See also:palace, 3 M. distant at Sychnant (dry stream) . Here is the church dedicated to St See also:Julian, See also:archbishop of St See also:David's (d . 1009), with " the See also:college," an See also:almshouse endowed by See also:William Eyton of Plas See also:Warren, See also:Shropshire . The old See also:British fort, Caer Drewyn, one of a See also:chain of forts from Dyserth to Canwyd, is the supposed See also:scene of Glen-See also:dower's See also:retreat under See also:Henry IV., and here ! Owen Cwynedd is said to have prepared to repulse Henry II . To the N.E. are the Clwyd hills; to the S. the Berwyn range, to the S.W . See also:Arran 1\/Iawddy and Cadair (Cader) Idris; to the W. the two Arenigs; to the N.W . See also:Snowdon .

Corwen is a favourite station for artists and anglers . Besides the Dee, there are several streamlets, such as the Trystion, which forms the Rhaiadr Cynwyd (See also:

waterfall), the Ceudiog, and the Alwen .

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