Llangollen
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Llangollen is a town and community, on the River Dee, in Denbighshire, Wales. Its riverside location forms the edge of the Berwyn range, and the Dee Valley section of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley
Llangollen Riverside Walk
Llangollen Bridge, 1793
Llangollen in 1850
St. Collen's parish church
Ladies of Llangollen
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The "Ladies of Llangollen", Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women who lived together as a couple. Their relationship scandalised and fascinated their contemporaries. The
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…structure and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Plas Newydd ('new mansion' or 'new place') high on the outskirts of the town, was from 1780 the home of the Ladies of Llangollen (the Honourable Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler) and their maid Mary Carryl. They share the same grave memorial in the church. Elevated on the…
Portrait of The Rt. Hon. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby 'The Ladies of Llangollen'
Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler in their library
Portrait of Ladies of Llangollen 1819
Carved oak porch of Plas Newydd. The house did not look like this during the Ladies' tenure; the exterior woodwork on the walls postdates them, added by a later owner between 1861 and 1890.