The Seven Wonders of Wales (Welsh: Saith Rhyfeddod Cymru) is a traditional list of notable landmarks in north Wales, commemorated in an anonymously written rhyme:
Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple,
Snowdon's mountain without its people,
Overton yew trees, St Winefride's well,
Llangollen bridge and Gresford bells.
The rhyme is usually supposed to have been written sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century by an English visitor to North Wales.[1] The specific number of wonders may have varied over the years: the antiquary Daines Barrington, in a letter written in 1770, refers to Llangollen Bridge as one of the "five wonders of Wales, though like the seven wonders of Dauphiny, they turn out to be no wonders at all out of the Principality".[2]
The seven wonders comprise:
Image
Wonder
Location
Date
Notable Features
Pistyll Rhaeadr
Near Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys
n/a
A tall waterfall, falling 240 ft (73 m) in three stages
St Giles' Church Eglwys San Silyn
Wrexham
16th-century
The 16th-century tower of St Giles' Church in Wrexham can be seen for miles
Overton yew trees Coed ywen Owrtyn
Overton-on-Dee, Wrexham County Borough
Planted at different times, ~3rd–12th century
21 yew trees at St Mary's Church
St Winefride's Well Ffynnon Wenffrewi
Holywell, Flintshire
AD 660 (as pilgrimage site), constructions date to medieval.
Historically claimed to have healing waters
Llangollen Bridge Pont Llangollen
Llangollen, Denbighshire
Current construction dates from around 1500
Site of the first stone bridge to span the Dee
Bells of All Saints' Church, Gresford Clychau Gresffordd
Gresford, Wrexham County Borough
13th-century
The church bells are listed for their purity and tone
Snowdon Yr Wyddfa
Snowdonia, Gwynedd
n/a
Highest mountain in Wales at 3,560 ft (1,085 m)
^Wales on Britannia: Seven Wonders of Wales, britannia.com
^Letter to Mr. Gough, July 20, 1770, in Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century, v.5, Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1828, p.583
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