1 82 LLANGOLLEN TO CORWEN, 



CORWEN, 



The White Choir, is a difagreeable little town, with 

 a white-waflied church. Its fituation is under a rock 

 at the foot of the Berwyn mountains. — It is a place 

 much reforted to by anglers, who come here for 

 the advantage of fifliing in the Dee, which abounds 

 in falmon, trout, and various other fpecies of efcu- 

 culent fifh. 



The church contains an ancient monument to the 

 memory of lonverth Sulien, one of the vicars. In 

 the church-yard there is an apparently very old 

 fquare flone pillar, that has once had much carved 

 work upon it, but from the effe£ls of time and 

 weather, this is now nearly obliterated. — ^There is 

 alfo, joining upon the church-yard, an alms-houfe, 

 founded in 1709 by William Eyton, efq. of Plas 

 Warren, in Shrppfnire, for the ufe of fix clergy, 

 m.en's widows of Merionethfliire. 



A mill on a fiream at the back of the inn I found 

 a pi(5lurefque object ; and fomc of the cottages near 

 it are rude, and fnigularly built. The young artifl 

 would find here a good lUidy or two. 



Corwen is celebrated as having been a place of 

 rendezvous to the Welfh forces under their prince 

 Qwen Gwynedd ; who from hence, in 1 165, put an 

 end to the invafion of Henry II. * 



# Cam. Reg. i. 192. 



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