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Afon Roe

Coordinates: 53°12′43″N 3°49′49″W / 53.2120°N 3.8303°W / 53.2120; -3.8303
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Afon Roe
Afon Roe is located in Wales
Afon Roe
Location of the mouth in Wales
Location
Country Wales
DistrictConwy County Borough Council
Physical characteristics
MouthConfluence with Afon Conwy
 • coordinates
53°12′43″N 3°49′49″W / 53.2120°N 3.8303°W / 53.2120; -3.8303

The Afon Roe is a small river in Snowdonia in north-west Wales.[1]

Its tributary is the Afon Tafolog, which drains the eastern slopes of Drum, a mountain in the Carneddau range.

The river flows through the village of Rowen before joining the River Conwy.

Course

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The river originates from several small streams on the southern slopes of Tal y Fan, to the east of Bwlch y Ddeufaen. The highest of these streams originates approximately 480 meters up just south of the western summit of Tal y Fan. Other streams come from a little to the east and flow close to the old Poet's Stone (Maen y Bard). After following a southern course they join to form the river Ro. The Tafolog River, which gathers a number of mountain streams in the marshland near Bwlch y Deufaen, joins the river which then flows on a course in a north-eastern direction.

It flows through the village of Rowen and then makes a turn to flow in a southern direction. It goes under a bridge and past the village of Caerhun. It turns east again passing the site of the Roman fort of Canovium to flow into the River Conwy at the end.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Stuart Fisher (5 January 2012). Rivers of Britain: Estuaries, Tideways, Havens, Lochs, Firths and Kyles. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 59–. ISBN 978-1-4081-5931-6.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey Map 1:50,000, sheet 115.