River Aeron


The River Aeron is a small river in Ceredigion, Wales, that flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron. It is also referred to on some older maps as the River Ayron. Pughe's Dictionary of the Welsh Language states that Aeron in Welsh meant: "queen of brightness".

Literary tradition

lived near the banks of the river in the 1940s, at a secluded mansion called Plas Gelli, just outside Talsarn. He called the Aeron valley "the most precious place in the world." The Dylan Thomas Trail follows the river from Talsarn to Aberaeron.
Talsarn was the centre for a thriving group of poets who lived in and around the Aeron valley, such as John Jenkins, Dan Jenkins Pentrefelin and Dinah Davies. There are still poets in the valley today, including Ciliau Aeron poet, Stevie Krayer, who has written a sequence of poems about the river.
Although the Aeron has suffered from intermittent pollution including some severe incidents in the 1970s caused by creamery waste and crude sewage escapes in the Felinfach area, the principal impacts are now diffuse agricultural waste, pesticides from agriculture and acidification especially from upland forestry plantations.