- Afon Cadnant
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image_caption =Clapper bridge over Afon Cadnant
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footnotes =The Afon Cadnant is a smallriver draining to theMenai Strait about 1 km north-east of the Menai suspension bridge,North Wales . The river drains a largely agricultural area fromLlandegfan toLlansadwrn and beyond with feedertributaries extending up towards Pentraethforest .Within the catchment are some artificial fishing ponds and a number of beef and dairy farms.
More notable are the remains and ruins of a number of water mills, especially in the lower section before the river enters the
strait . Up until the end of the 18th century it appears that great efforts were made to extract all the energy from the river to grind corn. This reflects the history ofAnglesey as the bread-basket of Wales.At the mouth of the river there is a small group of houses called Cwm Cadnant below which is a modern bridge carrying the main road to
Beaumaris . Before the construction of the Menai suspension bridge, this was an important landing stage for boats carrying milled corn to the mainland. It was also the staging place for theBishop of Bangor as he moved between his palace at Glyn Garth on Anglesey and hisCathedral at Bangor.Further upsteam from the old bridge there is an old blacksmiths, a few workers cottages and a slate mill dating from 1820.
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