Valle Crucis Abbey

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Valle Crucis was truly Welsh from the moment it was founded in 1201 by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd and the ‘white monks’ of the Cistercian order.
Its Latin name (Valley of the Cross) refers to the nearby ninth-century Pillar of Eliseg, erected for the glory of a Welsh chieftain. Monks had names like Tudur and Hywel.
Such home-grown sympathies might well explain the damage suffered during the wars of the English king Edward I and the uprising of Owain Glyndŵr. But it remains one of our best-preserved and most atmospheric medieval abbeys.

Abaty cwbl Gymreig oedd Abaty Glyn y Groes o’r foment y cafodd ei sylfaenu ym 1201 gan y Tywysog Madog ap Gruffydd a ‘mynachod gwynion’ yr urdd Sistersaidd.
Cyfeiria ei enw Lladin (Valle Crucis) at Golofn Eliseg gerllaw o’r nawfed ganrif, a godwyd er gogoniant Cymro o bennaeth. Roedd gan y mynachod enwau fel Tudur a Hywel.
Mae’n ddigon posibl fod cydymdeimlad cartref felly’n egluro’r difrod a ddioddefwyd yn ystod rhyfeloedd brenin Lloegr Edward I a gwrthryfel Owain Glyndŵr. Ond yma o hyd mae un o’n habatai canoloesol gorau o ran awyrgylch a chyflwr.

* From Wrexham station take the bus: 4km/2.5mls Llangollen Bridge End Hotel, route No X5, Wrexham-Llangollen