LLANDUDNO  , a seaside resort in the Arfon

parliamentary division of Carnarvonshire, North Wales, in a detached portion of the county east of the Conwy, on a strip of sandy soil terminating in the massive limestone of Great Orme's Head . Pop. of urban district (1901) 9279 . The town is reached by the London & North-Western railway, and lies 227 M . N.W. of London . A village in 185o, Llandudno is to-day one of the most flourishing watering-places in North Wales . Sheltered by the Great Orme on the N.W. and by the Little Orme on the E., it faces a wide bay of the Irish Sea, and is backed by low sandhills . A Marine Drive encircles the Great Orme . The Little Orme has caverns and abounds in sea birds and rare plants . Close to the town are the Gloddaeth woods, open to visitors . On the Great Orme are old circular buildings, an ancient fortress, a " rocking-stone " (crgd Tudno) and the 7th-century church of St Tudno, restored in 1885 . Druidical and other British antiquities are numerous in the district . At Deganwy, or Diganwy, 2 M. from Llandudno, is a castle, Dinas Gonwy (Conwy fort), known to English historians as Gannoc, dating from the 11th or (according to the Welsh) earlier than the 9th century .