Coedpoeth

Grid reference: SJ282530
Co-ordinates: 328243, 353098
Bearing: SSW

Seen from a distance (the road between Penrhos and Pentresaeson), this is Coedpoeth, one of the largest villages in the area. The actor Ricky Tomlinson (Brookside, The Royle Family) lived there for quite some years.

Grid reference: SJ291518
Co-ordinates: 329190, 351802
Bearing: SW

Another view of the village of Coedpoeth, seen this time from across the Gwenfro valley near Fron.

You can get some idea of the size of the place when I tell you that this view includes scarcely more than half of it. There's more to the left, the right and beyond the crest.

Grid reference: SJ298495
Co-ordinates: 329835, 349503
Bearing: NNW

Big Wood Weir stands on the River Clywedog as it passes through Plas Power Woods to the south-east of the village.

It was probably built by the famous Wilkinson steel-making family to power a small coal mine nearby.

Grid reference: SJ289500
Co-ordinates: 328940, 350078
Bearing: N

Nant Mill, on the River Clywedog.

There was a mill here for centuries, originally perhaps a fulling mill, but latterly a corn mill.

It is now a visitor centre.

© Nigel Stapley