Afon Alaw (Welsh for 'River Alaw') is a river on Anglesey, Wales which rises near Llanerch-y-medd and flows northwards into the reservoir of Llyn Alaw. Below the dam it then flows southwestwards to the island's west coast near Llanfachraeth. Its lower reaches, west of the A5025 road, are tidal.
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Aber Alaw is at the mouth of the Afon Alaw on Anglesey, in North Wales. It is located just north of Valley and south west of Llanfachraeth.
According to the Mabinogion, it is here that Queen Branwen died of grief after escaping the destruction of Ireland. She and the seven survivors of Prydein landed at Talebolyon, and upon seeing the coasts of both Ireland and Prydein, she died of a broken heart, blaming herself for the havoc.
At Llanddeusant, Anglesey on the banks of the Alaw can be found the cairn called Bedd Branwen, her supposed grave. Now in ruins, it still has one standing stone. It was dug up in 1800, and again in the 1960s by Frances Lynch, who found several urns with human ashes.
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Llanynghenedl is a village in Anglesey, in north-west Wales. It is located on the A5025 about 2 miles north-east of Valley and the A5. The village was the site of the historic St Enghenedl's Church, demolished in 1988. For a small settlement public transport links are good with Valley railway station being situated on the North Wales Coast Line and several bus routes connecting the towns of Holyhead and Amlwch running directly through it.
Until 1984, Llanynghenedl was a community.
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St Enghenedl's Church, Llanynghenedl, is a former parish church in Anglesey, north Wales, dedicated to the son of a 6th-century King of Powys. According to the 19th-century antiquarian Angharad Llwyd, the first church in Llanynghenedl was erected in about 620. A new church was erected in 1862, replacing a building that the 19th-century clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones noted as dating in part from the late 13th or early 14th century, based on the decorations on the south doorway. The church later fell into disuse as a result of the growth of the nearby village of Valley and the church there. In 1988, St Enghenedl's was dismantled and re-erected as an extension to St Mihangel's, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn, so that St Mihangel's could serve as the church for RAF Valley. The former churchyard of St Enghenedl's is still visible but is now overgrown.
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Llanfachraeth is a village and community in Anglesey, Wales. It is located near the west coast of the island, at the head of the Alaw estuary, 6.2 miles east of Holyhead, 11.7 miles south west of Amlwch and 11.3 miles north west of Llangefni. The A5025 road runs through the village. A bus service operates along this road daily, except for Sundays, running between Cemaes, Llanfaethlu, Llanfachraeth and Holyhead. The Wales Coast Path is forced inland here to cross the Afon Alaw. The village has a pub and accommodation is provided by the Holland Hotel.
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Llanllibio is a hamlet in the community of Bodedern, Anglesey, Wales, named after Saint Llibio which is 138.5 miles from Cardiff and 223 miles from London. St Llibio's Church, Llanllibio is now demolished.
Madam Wen the romantic character in the 17th century novels of William David Owen, was born in the parish in 1874.