River Gyffin

The River Gyffin is a small river in Conwy County Borough. It runs for about 4 miles before joining the River Conwy. For the first two miles of its course, it is called the River Henryd.

River Gyffin
Native nameAfon Gyffin  (Welsh)
Location
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
CountryWales
Principal areaConwy County Borough

The source of the river is a well near Glyn Isa farm, about half a mile northeast of Rowen on the lower slopes of Tal y Fan (SH 763725). For most of its course, it flows lazily through the fields and meadows of Henryd parish in a northerly direction on a course parallel to the River Conwy. It passes the new church of Llangelynnin and passes close to the village of Henryd itself, then below Groesffordd and Hendre to a narrow wooded stream before emerging near Gyffin. At the end of her journey, she turns east and flows under an old bridge near Conwy Castle and then estuaries in that river in the shadow of the castle walls at Aberfin.

The word "cyffin" means a "boundary" or "boundary" between two adjacent parcels of land. In the Middle Ages, the river in the vicinity of Gyffin village marked the south-eastern boundary of a piece of land belonging to Aberconwy Abbey and today still marks the boundary between the parish of Aberconwy (Conwy) and the parish of Gyffin.

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