I returned to Llangollen by nearly the same way by which I had come.
The remainder of the day I spent entirely with my family, whom at their particular request I took in the evening to see Plas Newydd, once the villa of the two ladies of Llangollen.

It lies on the farther side of the bridge, at a little distance from the back part of the church.

There is a thoroughfare through the grounds, which are not extensive.

Plas Newydd or the New Place is a small gloomy mansion, with a curious dairy on the right-hand side, as you go up to it, and a remarkable stone pump.
An old man whom we met in the grounds, and with whom I entered into conversation, said that he remembered the building of the house, and that the place where it now stands was called before its erection Pen y maes, or the head of the field..