HISTORY
OF LLANGOLLEN
AND ITS VICINITY;

INCLUDING A
CIRCUIT OF ABOUT SEVEN MILES.

BY W. T. SIMPSON.

Second Edition, with Marginal Notes.

LLANGOLLEN:
PUBLISHED BY DAVID ROBERTS, BRIDGE-STREET.
1853.

CONTENTS.

LLANGOLLEN
AND
ITS VICINITY.

“Here let me still with simple Nature live,
   My lowly field-flowers on her altar lay;
Enjoy the blessings that she meant to give,
   And calmly pass my inoffensive day.”

The attraction of North Wales, by its romantic scenery, the antiquity of its language, and the well authenticated records of its desperate struggle for independence, renders every part of the Principality interesting, and perhaps none more so than the beautifully picturesque town and neighbourhood of Llangollen, which have deservedly excited the attention and admiration of a vast number of strangers and antiquarians.  Nor have the expectations of its numerous visitors been disappointed; for, though the Alps may raise their towering summits to a greater height—may embosom in their dark recesses more ample lakes, and give rise to more magnificent rivers—yet even they cannot present a more pleasing variety of scenery, or more picturesque views, than those with which Llangollen is surrounded.

This