Melin-y-Coed

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	Bro Garmon
Principal area	Conwy
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	Bangor Aberconwy
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Aberconwy
List of places UK Wales Conwy 53.127°N 3.770°W / 53.127; -3.770

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

Chapel at Melin-y-Coed

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]