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CONWAY (Conwy, or Aberconwy)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONWAY (Conwy, or Aberconwy)  , a municipal See also:borough in the Arfon See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Carnarvonshire, N . See also:Wales, 14 M. by the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway from See also:Bangor, and 225 m.N.W. from London . Pop . (1901) 4681 . The See also:town is enclosed by a high See also:wall, roughly triangular, about 1 m. See also:round, with twenty-one dilapidated round towers, pierced by three See also:principal gateways with two strong towers . The See also:castle in the See also:south-See also:east See also:angle, built in 1284 by See also:Edward I., was inhabited, in 1389, by See also:Richard II., who here agreed to abdicate . Held for See also:Charles I. by See also:Archbishop See also:Williams, it was taken by See also:General Mytton in 1646 . Dismantled by the new proprietor, See also:Earl See also:Conway, it remains a ruin . It is oblong, with eight massive towers, and has, within, a See also:hall 130 ft. in length, known as See also:Llewelyn's . The parliamentary borough of Conway,returning, with five other towns,one member, extends over to the right See also:bank of the stream Conwy (Conway) . In 1885 the See also:mayor of Conway was made a See also:constable . See also:Llandudno with See also:Great and Little See also:Orme's Heads are at some 4 M. distance .

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bridges, a tubular for the railway (40 ft. shorter than that of the Menai) and a suspension, designed by See also:Stephenson (1846–1848) and See also:Telford (1822–1826) respectively, See also:cross the stream . St See also:Mary's See also:church is See also:Gothic; the Elizabethan Plas Mawr is the locale of the Royal See also:Cambrian See also:Academy of See also:Art . There are still some fragments of the 1185 Cistercian See also:Abbey . There are See also:golf links here and at Llandudno . The Conwy stream, on which a steamboat runs from Deganwy (2 M. below Conway town) to Trefriw, opposite Llanrwst, in summer, has some See also:coasting See also:trade in See also:sulphur and slates . It is about 30 in. See also:long, its valley (a haunt of artists) containing the towns last mentioned and Bettws y coed . Its pearls are mentioned in See also:Drayton's Polyolbion and See also:Spenser's Faerie Queene . See also:Pearl See also:fisheries existed at Conway for many centuries, dating back to the See also:Roman occupation . See also:Tacitus, See also:Agricola, 12, says of See also:Britain " gignit et See also:Oceanus See also:margarita, sed subfusca ac liventia," as are those found to-See also:day . Diganhwy (Dyganwy, Deganwy) is mentioned in the See also:Mabinogion (Geraint and Enid), if the See also:reading is See also:sound; it is certainly mentioned in the Annales Cambriae (years 812–822) and in the See also:Black See also:Book of Caerfyrddin (See also:Carmarthen), See also:xxiii . 1 . Caer-hyn, 41 m. from Conway, is on the highroad from London to See also:Holyhead, and is the Conovium of the See also:Romans .

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camp can still be traced, consisting of a square, strengthened by four parallel walls, extending to a distance from the See also:main See also:work . The camp is on a height, with the Conwy in front and a See also:wood on each flank . At the See also:foot of the See also:hill, near the stream, was a Roman See also:bath, with walls, See also:pavement and pillars . See also:Camden's Britannia mentions tiles, with marks of the loth or See also:Antoninus's See also:legion, as being found here, perhaps mistakenly . Gleini nadroedd (possibly amulets) and vitrum have been found here . In Bwlch y ddwy faen (" two See also:rock See also:ravine "), on the way to Aber, are the remains of a Roman road and antiquities .

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