A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PENMAEN-MAWR, a place on the N coast of Carnarvon; on the Chester and Holyhead railway, 4 miles W S W of Conway. It has a station on the railway, a post-office ‡ under Conway, and a hotel. Penmaen-Mawrmountain here stands boldly out into the sea; rises to an altitude of 1, 545 feet; was the scene of laborious efforts and very great dangers, on the part of travellersin the old times, between Chester and Holyhead; is traversed by Telford's Holyhead road, at a height of about 250 feet; presented most formidable difficulties to the construction, past it, of the Chester and Holyhead railway; and admitted the construction to be done only by means of a sea-wall and a tunnel.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Caernarvonshire AncC |
| Place: | Penmaen Mawr |
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