Llynclys (, )) is a small village in
Shropshire, England, in the
civil parish of
Llanyblodwel. It lies north of
Pant
Pant may refer to:
Clothing
* Pants or trousers, an article of outer clothing worn on the lower half of the body
* Underpants, an item of underwear
Places
* Pant, Denbighshire, Wales; a township of Llysfaen
*Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
*Pan ...
at the crossroads of the
A483 and B4396, where there are several houses and a
pub, the ''White Lion''.
Etymology
The name Llynclys is based on the
Welsh
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...
word for lake, ', and Llynclys Pool still lies near to the village. The - element was in the past thought to be derived from ', "palace" or "court", and the lake, supposed to be of extraordinary depth, was said to contain a drowned city or palace with various legends attached to it.
Countryside
Much of the area around Llynclys Hill to the west is
common land; there are a number of cottages and smallholdings probably built by workers in the area's lead mines and limestone quarries.
Llynclys Common, from which there are fine views, is home to eight varieties of
orchid and the
brown argus
''Aricia agestis'', the brown argus, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found throughout the Palearctic realm, north to northern Jutland (Denmark) and east to Siberia and the Tian Shan.
Subspecies
*''A. a. agestis'' southern and ce ...
butterfly.
Railways
Llynclys was formerly on the
Cambrian Railways
The Cambrian Railways owned of track over a large area of mid Wales. The system was an amalgamation of a number of railways that were incorporated in 1864, 1865 and 1904. The Cambrian connected with two larger railways with connections to the ...
line from to . The
Cambrian Heritage Railways
The Cambrian Heritage Railways is a heritage railway company, trust and society based at both Llynclys and Oswestry in its newly restored Oswestry railway station, Shropshire, England.
Formed after the 2009 merger of the Cambrian Railways ...
are now re-building sections of the line as a
heritage railway
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...
. railway station is in operation, whilst the original station remains unused of 2010.
Plane Crash
On the 30 October 1941 a
Royal Air Force,
Handley Page Hampden Mk I (P1294) crashed near the White Lion pub while on a training flight in bad weather, all Four crew died
References
External links
Villages in Shropshire
Aviation accidents and incidents locations in England
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