The town of Mochdre near Colwyn Bay North Wales
The town of Mochdre near Colwyn Bay North Wales. Mochdre is a village to the west of Colwyn Bay in Conwy County Borough, north Wales. Originally part of the Municipal Borough of Colwyn Bay prior to local government reorganisation in April 1974, it is now a separate community (equivalent to a parish in England for local government purposes), whose population at the 2001 census was 1,862. The name of the village comes from Welsh language words meaning pig (moch) and town (tref). The origin of the name is explained in one of the mythological Welsh tales known as The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, which were first written down in the early Middle Ages, but which actually go much further back into the history of oral Welsh storytelling. An incident in one of these tales, Math fab Mathonwy, concerns the theft of a herd of sacred pigs. One of the places where the stolen animals were kept overnight became known as Mochdre ("Pigtown") as a result.
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