Melin-y-Coed
Village in Conwy County Borough, Wales
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Melin-y-Coed (standard Welsh: Melin-y-coed, lit. 'mill in the wood')[1] is a small rural village in the county borough of Bro Garmon, Conwy, Wales. It stands about 2.5 km south-east of Llanrwst beside the little river Nant-y-Golon. Behind the village to the east the hills rise to Moel Seisiog (467m). The B5427 links Melin-y-Coed to Llanrwst. The earliest surviving building in the village is Cyffdy Hall, built in 1596.[2]
| Melin-y-Coed | |
|---|---|
The three remaining mill workers' cottages at Glanllyn Terrace, Melin-y-Coed. | |
  Melin-y-Coed Location within Conwy | |
| OS grid reference | SH815603 |
| Community | |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LLANRWST |
| Postcode district | LL26 |
| Dialling code | 01492 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Description
The minor road that leaves the B5427 at Llanrwst crosses the Nant-y-Golon at Melin-y-Coed by two early-nineteenth-century stone bridges. The main Melin-y-Coed bridge with curving revetment walls is listed Grade II as "an early C19 vernacular bridge",[3] and sixty metres downstream a second bridge dated 1822 is separately protected for its carved date-stone and group value.[4] Adjoining the crossing is Bethel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, founded in 1822 and rebuilt in 1879; Cadw notes its intact raked box pews and coved plaster ceiling and lists it Grade II as "an unspoilt nineteenth-century rural chapel".[5]
About 1 km south-east stands Cyffdy Hall, a two-storey sub-medieval house externally and internally dated 1596'. Georgian remodelling added sash windows and a stable-coach-house range; Cadw designates the ensemble Grade II as "an unusually good example of a small multi-period country house" occupying a prominent hillside site overlooking the Afon Cyffdy.[6]
Census 2021 returns counted 673 usual residents in Bro Garmon, giving a density of roughly 12 inhabitants per km² across the 54.7 km² community.[7] Mixed deciduous woodland shelters the settlement, while to the east the ground rises to the trig-pointed summit of Moel Seisiog (467 m).[8]
Listed buildings
The Bethel Chapel (built 1822, rebuilt 1879)[9][10] and two bridges also dating from 1822 are Grade II listed.[11][12] Cyffdy Hall together with its Coach House is Grade II* listed.[13]
