Seven Wonders of Wales

The Seven Wonders of Wales (Template:Langx) is a traditional list of notable landmarks in north Wales, commemorated in an anonymously written rhyme:<ref>A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to North Wales (Southern section) via Google Books</ref>

The rhyme is usually supposed to have been written sometime in the late 18th or early 19th century by an English visitor to North Wales.<ref>Wales on Britannia: Seven Wonders of Wales Template:Webarchive, britannia.com</ref> The specific number of wonders may have varied over the years: the antiquary Daines Barrington, in a letter written in 1770, refers to Llangollen Bridge as one of the "five wonders of Wales, though like the seven wonders of Dauphiny, they turn out to be no wonders at all out of the Principality".<ref name=barrington>Letter to Mr. Gough, July 20, 1770, in Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century, v.5, Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1828, p.583</ref>

There are also other shorter versions of the rhyme, including:<ref>Overton in days gone by via Google Books</ref>

A similar version to this included the last line as "Llangollen Bridge and all Welsh people".<ref>The Wrexham Advertiser, 7 May 1870 via the Welsh Newspaper Archive</ref>

The seven wonders comprise:

Image	Wonder	Location	Date	Notable Features
File:Pistyll Rhaeadr 0073.JPG	Pistyll Rhaeadr	Near Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys	n/a	A tall waterfall, falling 240 ft (73 m) in three stages
File:Wrexham Parish Church (27203084507).jpg	St Giles' Church Eglwys San Silyn	Wrexham	16th-century	The 16th-century tower of St Giles' Church in Wrexham can be seen for miles
File:Overton yew tree 2016-06-04.jpg	Overton yew trees Coed ywen Owrtyn	Overton-on-Dee, Wrexham County Borough	Planted at different times, ~3rd–12th century	21 yew trees at St Mary's Church
File:Treffynnon.JPG	St Winefride's Well Ffynnon Wenffrewi	Holywell, Flintshire	AD 660 (as pilgrimage site), constructions date to medieval	Historically claimed to have healing waters
File:Llangollen Bridge 2014-09-17.jpg	Llangollen Bridge Pont Llangollen	Llangollen, Denbighshire	Current construction dates from around 1500	Site of the first stone bridge to span the Dee
File:Gresford bells 2016-06-05 - 3.jpg	Bells of All Saints' Church, Gresford Clychau Gresffordd	Gresford, Wrexham County Borough	13th-century	The church bells are listed for their purity and tone
File:Snowdon massif.jpg	Snowdon Yr Wyddfa	Snowdonia, Gwynedd	n/a	Highest mountain in Wales at 3,560 ft (1,085 m)

See also

• Seven Natural Wonders of the UK
• Seven Wonders of the World