Carrog is a village in Denbighshire

Denbighshire

Denbighshire is a county in north-east Wales. It is named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales. Pontnewydd Palaeolithic site has remains of Neanderthals from 225,000 years...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. Formerly referred to as Llansanffraid-Glyn Dyfrdwy, as it lies within the parish of Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy

Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy

Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy is a former civil parish in the Edeirnion area of Denbighshire in Wales. Until 1974 it was part of Meirionnydd, and was transferred to Glyndŵr District in Clwyd by the Local Government Act 1972. It became part of Denbighshire in 1996, and now forms part of the community...

, it takes its modern name from the Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

 station

Carrog railway station

Carrog railway station in Denbighshire, Wales, was formerly a station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line. It was to have closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965 but closed prematurely on 14 December 1964 due to flood damage. It was reopened in 1996 as part of the preserved Llangollen Railway...

 on the opposite bank of the River Dee, which in turn took its name (possibly to avoid confusion with the adjacent Glyn Dyfrdwy station

Glyndyfrdwy railway station

Glyndyfrdwy railway station in Denbighshire, Wales, was formerly a station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line. It was to have closed to passengers on Monday 18 January 1965 but closed prematurely due to flood damage on 14 Dec 1964. It was reopened in 1993 by the preserved Llangollen Railway...

 and that in Llansanffraid Glan Conwy

Glan Conwy

Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, usually shortened to Glan Conwy, is a village in Conwy County Borough, North Wales. The name translates from the Welsh as Church of St Ffraid on the bank of the River Conwy. The village was founded in the 5th century and in the past had a marine based economy, but it is...

) from the Carrog estate on that bank.

Carrog Station is now part of the Llangollen Railway

Llangollen Railway

The Llangollen Railway is a volunteer-run preserved railway in Denbighshire, Wales, which operates between Llangollen and Carrog; at long, it is the longest preserved standard gauge line in Wales and operates daily in Summer as well as weekends throughout the Winter months using a wide variety of...

 and is currently one end of the line, until the extension to Bonwm

Bonwm Halt railway station

Bonwm Halt in Denbighshire, Wales, was a minor station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line. It was of timber construction and only about one carriage length long. It was to have closed to passengers on 18 January 1965 but closed prematurely on 14 December 1964 due to flood damage. There was never a...

 is opened. One notable resident is Peredur Lynch

Peredur Lynch

Peredur I. Lynch is a Welsh academic specialising in Welsh literary history.Lynch spent much of his early life in Carrog in northern Wales and obtained a degree at Bangor University. He has won a number of Eisteddfod Chairs, beginning with the Urdd National Eisteddfod Chair at Maesteg in 1979...

 who graduated from Bangor University to become an academical literate. Carrog has one primary school, Ysgol Carrog which is over 100 years old.