Melin-y-Wig

Melin-y-Wig
Village
Melin y Wig village, North Wales
Melin-y-Wig Location within Denbighshire
Principal area	Denbighshire
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	North Wales
Fire	North Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
List of places UK Wales Denbighshire 53°01′38″N3°25′59″W / 53.02722°N 3.43306°W / 53.02722; -3.43306

Melin-y-Wig is a village in Denbighshire, Wales. It is situated on the River Clwyd. Rising in the nearby Clocaenog Forest (grid reference SJ045535), the river flows due south up to Melin-y-Wig, when it suddenly changes direction north-eastwards: ^[1]

After flowing in a generally southerly direction from Waen Ganol to Melin-y-Wig, the river turns abruptly eastwards to flow through a deep, narrow gorge north of Moel Clegyr, swings north and northeast round Dinas and then continues on a course somewhat north of east below Derwen ... ^[2]

The village once had its own school, but in the mid-1960s, it was decided to close it in favour of the primary school in Betws Gwerful Goch. ^[3] The last headteacher was Mr Oswyn Williams.

Melin-y-Wig is noted for a Welsh nursery rhyme about it:

Bachgen bach o Felin-y-wig,
welodd o 'rioed damaid o gig;
Gwelodd falwen ar y bwrdd,
cipiodd ei gap a rhedodd i ffwrdd.

This translates as:

A little boy from Melin-y-wig,
he never saw a morsel of meat;
He saw a snail on the table,
he snatched his hat and ran away.

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Dinas Melin-y-Wig

Dinas Melin-y-Wig ( 53°01′53″N3°25′09″W / 53.0313°N 3.4191°W / 53.0313; -3.4191 (Dinas Melin-y-Wig) ) is the remains of an Iron Age hillfort, dated about c. 800 BC – AD 74. The monument has helped understanding of later prehistoric defensive organisation and settlement. ^[5]

References

1. "River Clwyd | river, Wales, United Kingdom | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
2. Brown, E. H.; Harris, A. N. (1969). "Drainage Diversions in the Upper Clwyd Valley". Geography. 54 (2): 140–151. ISSN   0016-7487. JSTOR   40566780.
3. "Ysgol Betws Gwerfil Goch". Denbighshire County Council. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
4. Pedersen, Torben (2005). "HTTPS, Secure HTTPS". Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. pp. 268–269. doi:10.1007/0-387-23483-7_189. ISBN   978-0-387-23473-1.
5. "Dinas Melin-y-Wig, Betws Gwerfil Goch (Betws Gwerful Goch), Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych)". ancientmonuments.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2022.

 This article incorporates text published under the British Open Government Licence : "Scheduled Monuments- Full Report – Dinas Melin-y-Wig". Welsh Government. Retrieved 8 November 2022.