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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANGOR (formerly BANGOR FAWR, as distinguished from several other towns of this name in See also:Wales, See also:Ireland, See also:Brittany, &c.)  , a See also:city, municipal (1883) and contributory See also:parliamentary See also:borough (See also:Carnarvon See also:district), seaport and See also:market-See also:town of See also:Carnarvonshire, N . See also:Wales, 240 M . N.W. of See also:London by the London & See also:North Western railway . Pop . (1901) 11,269 . It consists of Upper and See also:Lower, the Lower practically one See also:street . Lying near the See also:northern entrance of the Menai Straits, it attracts many visitors . Buildings include the small See also:cathedral, disused See also:bishop's See also:palace, deanery,'smallRoman See also:Catholic See also:church and other churches, the University See also:College of N . Wales (1883), with See also:female students' See also:hall, See also:Independent, Baptist, Normal and N . Wales Training Colleges . The cruciform cathedral, with a See also:low pinnacled See also:tower, stands on the site of a church which the See also:English destroyed in 1071 (dedicated to, and perhaps founded, about 525, by St Deiniol) . See also:Sir G .

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Scott restored the See also:present cathedral, 1866–1875, after it had been burned in the See also:time of See also:Owen See also:Glendower, destroyed in 1211, and, in 1102 and 1212, severely handled . Bishop See also:Dean (temp . See also:Henry VII.) rebuilt the See also:choir, Bishop Skevyngton (1532) added tower and See also:nave . See also:Lord See also:Penrhyn's See also:slate-quarries, at See also:Bethesda, 6 m. off, See also:supply the See also:staple export from See also:Port Penrhyn, at the mouth of the stream Cegid . The Myvyrian See also:Archaeology (408–484) gives the three See also:principal See also:bangor (college) institutions as follows:—the bangor of Illtud Farchawg at Caer Worgorn (Wroxeter); that of Emrys (Ambrosius) at Caer Caradawg; bangor wydrin (See also:glass) in the glass isle, Afallach; bangor Illtud, or Llanilltud, or Llantwit See also:major (by corruption), being a See also:fourth . In each of the first three were 420 See also:saints, succeeding each other (by hundreds), See also:day and See also:night, in their pious offices .

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