The River Terrig () is a small river in north-east
Wales
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.
The river rises at
Llyn Cyfynwy near
Graianrhyd village in the
community
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of
Llanarmon-yn-Ial,
Denbighshire
Denbighshire ( ; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthi ...
, about three miles from the source of the
River Alyn
The River Alyn () is a tributary of the River Dee in north-east Wales. It rises at the southern end of the Clwydian hills and the Alyn Valley forms part of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The main tow ...
.
['' 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,
Flintshire
Flintshire () is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, the Dee Estuary to the north-east, the English county of Cheshire to the east, Wrexham County Borough to the south, and Denbighshire to the west. ...
.
The Terrig is a habitat for
brown trout
The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus ''Salmo'', endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally ...
. Its name is derived from its rapid flow after times of heavy rain;
Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, 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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