The Monnow Trying To Join The Wye

The river Wye is by the far the main river of Monmouth despite the smaller Monnow giving it's name to the town, Mon-mouth, the "mouth of the river Monnow"*

When the Wye is high and running fast, the Monnow struggles to flow in, slowing down to becomes pond-like, and then slowly rising, it's quite the sight.

I really like how the setting winter sun lights up the Monnow.

River Monnow joining a very full the River Wye. The Monnow is lit by the winter sun. Trees line the banks and hills in the distance..

* The town was originally known in Welsh as Abermynwy ("mouth of the Monnow"), replaced by Trefynwy ("Monnow town" – the initial m of Mynwy mutating in Welsh to f, pronounced /v/) by the 1600s.

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