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The River Nodwydd
Cliciwch yma am y fersiwn Cymraeg
River Nodwydd is a small river that springs
to the south-west of Pentraeth and flows to the sea at the top of Red Wharf Bay(Traeth
Coch). It is obvious that the name is old. It was at Abernodwydd, where this river flowed
to the sea, that Einion ap Gwalchmai jumped his remarkable jump at the end of the twelfth
century.
It is River Nodwydd in Williams’ list of the rivers of Anglesey, 1908, and W. Davies
refers to Aber Nodwydd as its estuary, again in 1908. Nodwydd is its name on current
Ordnance Survey maps as well.
In all probability this is a descriptive name. Sir Ifor Williams suggests that it
describes a narrow river. The word ‘nodwydd’(needle) of course suggests this and
the river more or less in its entirety is remarkably straight and narrow. The name is not
entirely unique; there is another river called Nodwydd by Llandegfan in the north west of
Powys. The part of the river that flows through the village of Pentraeth is called Nant y
Felin by the local people.
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