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PWLLHELI (" salt pit;" or " pool ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PWLLHELI (" See also:salt See also:pit;" or " See also:pool ")  , a municipal 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, See also:North See also:Wales, 20 M . S. of Carnarvon and 270 M. from See also:London by See also:rail . Pop . (1901), 3675 . It is on the north See also:side of See also:Cardigan See also:Bay, on the See also:shore of Tremadoc Bay, with a sandy See also:beach 4 M. in length and See also:good bathing . It is the See also:terminus of the See also:Cambrian railway (the London & North-Western railway being 4 M. distant at Afonwen junction) . See also:Pwllheli commands a good' view of Merionethshire and of the See also:Snowdon range, with the entire sweep of Cardigan Bay, Carreg yr ymbill (See also:gimlet See also:stone) at the mouth of the See also:harbour, Abersoch and St Tudwal's Islands . Many See also:hundred acres of See also:land have been reclaimed from the See also:sea here and along the See also:coast of the bay; there are costly embankments and good harbourage . The coastis locally noted for See also:fisheries (especially of lobsters and oysters) and some See also:ship-See also:building is carried on . Pwllheli was incorporated by See also:Edward the See also:Black See also:Prince . At See also:Nevin (Nefyn), 6 m. distant, Edward I. held a See also:tournament or revel, in 1284, on a magnificent See also:scale, to commemorate his See also:conquest of Wales .

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