Searching for "OLD COLWYN"

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    Place name County Entry Source
    BEDDGELERT, or Bethgelert Caernarvonshire
    Merionethshire
    Colwyn and the Gwynnant rivers, near Aberglaslyn pass, 6 miles S of the summit of Snowdon, and 12 SE of Carnarvon; and is connected by railway, near completion in 1869, with the Cambrian at Port-Madoc. It nestles in a deep romantic vale, engirt by lofty mountains, amidst the grandest scenery in Wales; presents very strong attractions to tourists, artists, and anglers; was anciently noted as a resting-place of pilgrims; and has a post office‡ under Carnarvon, large excellent hotel, comfortable lodging-houses, a parish church and two dissenting chapels. The church is early English; measures 80 feet Imperial
    BUILTH Brecknockshire old tower; and contains an ancient monument of a Lloyd, removed from a previous church. There are four dissenting chapels and an educational charity, the latter with £60. The Park Wells, three mineral springs, severally saline, chalybeate, and sulphurous, are about 1¾ mile to the NW, and draw visitors from a distance, who lodge in town. The environs generally are picturesque, the climate salubrious, and the sport for anglers good. The town enjoys ready communication with all parts of Wales and England from the intersection near it of the line of railway from Llanidloes to Brecon with Imperial
    LLANDRILLO-YN-RHOS Caernarvonshire
    Denbighshire
    Colwyn in Denbighshire; and the last of these townships has a station on the railway, and a postoffice under Conway. Acres of the Carnarvon portion, 941; of which 110 are water. Real property, £1,245Pop., 295. Houses, 65. Acres of the Denbigh portion. of which £151 are in quarries, and £15 in fisheries. Pop., 1,026. Houses, 219. The property is divided among a few. An old Imperial
    Old Colwyn Denbighshire Old Colwyn , ry. sta., Denbighshire, between Llandulas and Colwyn Bay stations. Bartholomew
    RADNORSHIRE, or Radnor Radnorshire old red sandstone occupies a considerabletract in the S E; a very fine mass of altered and crystal-line limestone occurs at Nash Scar; and trap of peculiarand very interesting character forms a ridge of about 3 miles along the Stanner, the Worzel, and the Hanterhills, and another of about 1½ mile in length in Old Radnor hill. Limestone is worked in the vale of Radnor; lead has been found at Cwm-Elan; and traces oflead and copper are at Llandrindod. The soils, for the most part, are thin and poor; but, in the best tracts, in the vales Imperial
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