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Corwen is the next station above Llangollen ; 

 there is an excellent house there, the Owen 

 Glyndwr Hotel. The fishing from Corwen is 

 equally good, both up and down the river, 

 each locality having its partisans ; but to our 

 fancy the streams near Llansaintffraid, three 

 miles below Corwen, are about the .best fishing 

 in the Dee. There are also other rivers in the 

 immediate neighbourhood. The Alwen, which 

 joins the Dee about two miles above Corwen. 

 is a small, but very good- river, after rain, and 

 when there is sufficient water. The best way 

 to fish it is to take a car up from Corwen to 

 Cerrig-y-druidion, ten miles, and fish the Ceirw, 

 till if falls into the Alwen, and so down to 

 Ty Nant, a distance of about three miles, where 

 the car can meet you. There are, however, two 

 excellent houses at Cerrig-y-druidion, at either 

 of which you will find good accommodation ; 



the other three to Llanrhaiadr, and you have then five 

 miles of the finest fishing possible on the Tanat. 

 N.B. You must have permission here, as the Tanat 

 is strictly preserved. Two years ago I was much 

 disappointed to find the Tanat much injured by the 

 water from some copper mines, but I understand it 

 18 again free from that objection. Besides the Tanat, 

 however, you have at Llanrhaiadr a brook called the 

 Cynlleth, and at Llanfyllin, about three miles distant, 

 the river Cain, in which there is good fishing. 



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