The River Terrig ( cy, Afon Terrig) is a small river in north-east
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
.
The river rises at
Llyn Cyfynwy near
Graianrhyd village in the
community
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of
Llanarmon-yn-Ial,
Denbighshire
Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnew ...
, about three miles from the source of the
River Alyn.
['' Cambridge County Geographies: Flintshire'', Cambridge University Press, p.25] It then flows northwards and eastwards, forming the boundary between the old parishes of
Nercwys and
Treuddyn. At Nant-y-Mynydd it is joined by several small springs from Mynydd Ddu, and finally itself joins the River Alyn at
Pontblyddyn
Pontblyddyn is a small village outside Leeswood, in Flintshire, Wales and is situated around 8 miles from Wrexham. Plas Teg, one of the most important Jacobean era
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,
Flintshire
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The Terrig is a habitat for
brown trout
The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally. It includes purely freshwater populations, referred to as the riverine ecotype, ''Salmo trutta'' morp ...
. Its name is derived from its rapid flow after times of heavy rain;
Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (14 June OS 172616 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales.
As a naturalist he had ...
, in his ''Tours in Wales'', described it as "the ''Terrig'', or the ''violent'',
..often of a tremendous swell and fury".
[Pennant, T. ''Tours in Wales, Volume 2'', Wilkie and Robinson, 1810, p.44]
References
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