A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CONWAY (The), a river of North Wales. It issues from Llyn-Conway, a lake among mountains, 2½ miles N of the point where the counties of Carnarvon, Merioneth, and Denbigh meet; runs 4½ miles circuitously to the boundary between Carnarvon and Denbigh; traces that boundary, in a serpentine course northward for 17 miles; and goes thence in a tolerably straight line north-ward to the sea, at the north-east corner of Beaumaris bay. Its early course is rapid and tumultuous, along reaches of romantic mountain valley; and it speedily acquires volume from the Machno, the Ceirw, the Llugwy, and other mountain affluent. Its path, below Lima Hall, about midway of its career on the boundary between Carnarvon and Denbigh, is beset by a precipice 50 feet deep; and it there makes a grand leap, called the Conway falls, into a rocky basin surrounded by hanging woods. It proceeds thence past Bettws-Coed and Llanrwst; begins at Trefriw, a mile below Llanrwst, to be navigable; and is thence to the sea, past Conway, a large, placid, beautiful stream. Its upper part is famous for trout; and its mouth has been noted for abundance of inferior pearl mussels.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Caernarvonshire AncC |
| Place names: | CONWAY | CONWAY THE | THE CONWAY |
| Place: | Conway |
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