Llangollen Advertiser

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Llangollen Advertiser
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The Llangollen advertiser, Denbighshire, Merionethshire and North Wales journal
Type weekly newspaper
PublisherHugh Jones  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Editor Hugh Jones [*]
Launched2 November 1860  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
City Llangollen   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Country Wales
OCLC number 766007626

The Llangollen Advertiser, Denbighshire, Merionethshire and North Wales Journal was a weekly English-language newspaper that circulated in Denbighshire, Merionethshire, and North Wales. It was first published on 2 November 1860. [1]

Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised 2,311 issues of the Llangollen Advertiser (1868–1919) from the newspaper holdings of the National Library of Wales. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Llangollen Advertiser, Denbighshire, Merionethshire and North Wales Journal at Welsh Newspapers Online, National Library of Wales