Llangollen

Llangollen, a town of Denbighshire, North Wales, picturesque situated on the Dee, 22 miles SW. of Chester and 26 NW. of Shrewsbury. It has a town-hall (1866) and flannel manufactures, and is visited by tourists on account of the beauty of the famous Vale of Llangollen, and for its antiquities, among which are Dinas Bran or Crow Castle, Valle Crucis Abbey (1200), and Eliseg's Pillar (8th or 9th century). Plas Newydd, $\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile S. of the bridge, was for half a century the residence of the two Irish recluses, the 'Ladies of the Vale,' or 'Maid of Llangollen,' Lady Eleanor Butler (1745-1829) and Miss Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1831), who were visited here by Madame de Genlis, Miss Seward, De Quincey, and many other celebrities. Pop. 5546. See Simpson's History of Llangollen (3d ed. 1852).