The Tourist's Guide through the Country of Caernarvon: containing a short sketch of its History, Antiquities, &c.Williams, P. B. (Peter Bailey)
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The Tourist's Guide through the Country of Caernarvon: containing a short sketch of its History, Antiquities, &c.
Williams, P. B. (Peter Bailey)
Caernarvonshire (Wales) -- Description and travel
five miles, and as the stranger proceeds he cannot help admiring the
ever-varying Scene, and the beauty of the prospects which present
themselves to his view: On the Anglesey shore, the Town of Beaumaris,
Baron Hill, The Friars, Red Hill, &c. claim his attention; and directly
before him, on the Carnarvonshire side, he will perceive the Village and
much-admired Church of Llandegai, and near it Penrhyn Woods and Castle,
rising in Majestic grandeur. The Church of Llandegai has lately been
very much improved and beautified, by means of a very handsome Legacy,
left by the late Lady Penrhyn for that purpose. The whole of the
interior has been renewed, viz. the Seats, Pulpit, Communion, Ceiling,
Plastering, and Floor, and the Tower raised, in order to admit a Peal of
Six Bells, a Legacy for which having been also left by Lady Penrhyn, as
well as one for the erection of a Monument to her deceased Lord, which is
now fixed up in the Church, and is a most superb and elegant piece of
work; it is made of Statuary Marble, and represents two Figures, one a
Quarryman, with an Iron Bar and Slate knife in his hand, reading the
inscription, and reflecting on the loss of his benefactors, the other is
a female Peasant Girl, weeping over the loss of her deceased Lord and
Lady; there are some other smaller Figures, very descriptive of the
progress of improvement amongst the Peasantry, under the directing
influence of his Lordship.
Whilst we are speaking of Llandegai Village and Church, we must not omit
here to notice a very great improvement, and accommodation to the public,
which has been effected, at very considerable expence, through the
liberality of Mr. Pennant, we mean the new piece of road, to the left,
made to avoid that dangerous and ugly hill near the Church. This part of
the County has within the last thirty years been abundantly improved by
the late Lord Penrhyn, under the judicious management and direction of
Benjamin Wyatt, Esq. of Lime Grove, his Lordship’s Agent, two individuals
who were real benefactors to the Country, and whose names have every
claim to the grateful recollections not only of the inhabitants of this
neighbourhood, but of all those whom business or pleasure may induce to
enter this County, by way of Capel Curig and Nant Ffrancon, which is now
the great Post Road from Shrewsbury to Holyhead. At the former place, an
Inn, upon a very commodious and extensive scale, has been erected by the
late Lord Penrhyn; and his successor, Mr. Pennant, with the view of
giving greater facility and convenience to Travellers, has lately erected
there a Cottage and Stables near the road, in order to give those who
might find it inconvenient to go down to the Inn, an opportunity of
changing horses at the road, and also for the better accommodation of the
Mail and Stage Coaches; he has likewise built new Stables at Tynymaes,
and made the Inn there into a Posting House, to divide that long and
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