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Ty'n Dŵr Hall (Welsh: Plas Ty'n Dŵr) is a Grade II* listed building near Llangollen in Denbighshire, north Wales.

As a listed building, Ty'n Dŵr Hall's architectural heritage must be preserved by law, but there is no protection to the linguistic heritage of the name. As ownership of Ty'n Dŵr Hall has changed over its history, so too has it's Welsh name. Ty'n is an abbreviation of tyddyn, meaning homestead or smallholding, linking the 19th-century hall to its modest beginnings. Dŵr (and sometimes dwfr) means water. The full name Plas Ty'n Dŵr

The name appears on maps and in newspapers up to the early 20th century and in the 1903 floor plan as ''Ty'n Dwfr".

The house present building was built in the late 1860s for Mr John Dicken on the site of the former house, possibly funded by the sale of parts of the estate by Mr G. Ll. Dicken to allow for the expansion and development of the town of Llangollen. Further parts of the estate was sold at auction in various lots at the start of the 20th century. Lots including Plas Ty'n Dŵr itself were withdrawn twice in June 1902 and once again in July 1903.

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In 2007 Plas Ty'n Dŵr was purchased by the University of Central Lancaster. It was used to deliver elements of courses related to sport, tourism and the outdoors until June 2014. The university had made efforts to correctly use the circumflex above the w in dŵr at times but also sometimes introduced a circumflex above the y, mistaking ty'n for including the Welsh word tŷ (house) rather than being the abbreviated form of tyddyn. The English university also erroneosly dropped the apostrophe in ty'n to create tyn, Welsh for tight or taut.

Plas Ty'n Dŵr was advertised for sale once more in 2013. The sale documents omit the circumflex above the w in dŵr (water) as well as the apostrophe in Ty'n. The resulting Tyn Dwr Hall is incorrect.

In December 2015 it was publicised that a local businessman based in Wrexham had purchased Ty'n Dŵr Hall and was in the process of transforming the buildings and land into a wedding venue. A brand name and merchandise has not yet been produced, but early indications are that the corrupted version of the name, Tyn Dwr Hall, will be used.