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
The principal rooms
are commodious and elegant, particularly the Drawing-room, which is a
very stately and handsome apartment, but the Architecture of the house
cannot be said fairly to bear any technical character; being neither of
the Grecian, Roman, Gothic, nor English domestic stile, but an insipid
and unmeaning attempt at all. Rumour however says, that the present
proprietor contemplates some very important improvements. The situation
is one which has every claim to a noble and distinguished edifice.
Lime Grove, the neat and appropriate residence of Mr. Wyatt, the Agent of
Mr. Pennant, (and son of the former Mr. Wyatt, before alluded to) is
situated in the lower part of Penrhyn Park, to the West; this house was
also planned by the late S. Wyatt, Esq. and in point of chasteness and
technical purity, is more creditable to his taste than the greater work
at Penrhyn Castle. The grounds, and what may be called the rural economy
of Lime Grove, have ever been deservedly admired.
Contiguous to this part of Penrhyn Park, and to the North West of it, is
Port Penrhyn.—This is a very noble and commodious arrangement, made for
the accommodation of the Merchant Vessels, employed for the conveyance of
the Slate from the afore-mentioned Quarry, to different parts of the
Kingdom, and for receiving and stowing the productions of that Quarry
until they are lodged on board the Vessels waiting to receive them. The
vastly increasing demand for these Slates, {38} necessarily requires a
proportionate scale of the means for supplying it, consequently the Quay,
at Port Penrhyn, has lately undergone very considerable enlargement, by
the present proprietor, G. H. D. Pennant, Esq. which alike does credit to
his liberal spirit in projecting it, as to the builder in its masterly
execution; it will accommodate 50 sail, in addition to the old Quay, and
will greatly facilitate the Trade there. The beautiful Bridge too, which
Mr. Pennant is now building over the Cegin, at Port Penrhyn, will
considerably improve the communication between that place and the Town of
Bangor, and be a great public accommodation in other respects, at the
same time it makes a handsome finish to the Pier, which we understand to
be upwards of 300 yards in length, and we have no hesitation in saying
that when the whole is completed, it will form one of the most complete
Shipping places in the Principality. The Slates are conveyed from the
Quarry, in Nant Ffrancon, to this Port, a distance of 8 miles, by means
of small waggons, linked together in succession, and running upon a
rail-road. The expedition and facility with which the Slates are thus
conveyed from the Quarry to the Ships is very remarkable.
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