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
Not far from this Bridge is shewn a stone, by the road side, called Rhys
Goch o Eryri’s chair, where it is said he used to sit and compose his
Poems; and not far from Meillionen, in this Parish, was discovered in
1784, a curious Shield; supposed to be British. There is an excellent
road from Pont Aberglaslyn to Tremadoc, along the Western Banks of the
Glaslyn, the distance about five miles; as also over the Bridge to Tan y
Bwlch and Festiniog, which is about seven or eight.
We shall now return once more to Carnarvon, and proceed nearly along the
Sea Coast, round the Promontory of Lleyn.—We have already conducted the
stranger as far as the small Bridge (Pont Afon Rhyd), where the road
branches off for Llanllyfni; having proceeded about a mile further,
observe on the right Mount Hazel, the seat of the Rev. Glynne Bodvel
Lewis, and between it and the sea Llandwrog Church, where there are
several handsome Monuments, to the memory of the Wynne’s of Glynn Llivon,
particularly that of Sir John Wynn, (grandfather of the present Lord
Newborough,) who built that house, which is now much neglected, and
greatly out of repair, owing to the minority of the proprietor. Glynn is
on the left of the road, and near the little river Llifon, issuing from
the Cilgwyn Mountains. _Cilmin_ Droed-ddu, or Kilmin with the _black
foot_, one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales, and nephew to Merfryn
Frych, Prince of Wales, slain 841, was the founder of this family, and is
said to have had his residence near this spot; they bear, in allusion to
the name of their Ancestor, a man’s leg _coupe a la cuisse_, sable: he is
said to have injured his leg in some dangerous encounter, and that it
became discoloured, and that he continued lame in consequence of this
unfortunate circumstance. Glynn Llifon came into possession of the late
Sir John Wynn, by the marriage of his father, Thomas Wynn, Esq. of
Boduan, in Lleyn, with Frances, second daughter to John Glynn, Esq. of
Glynn Llifon.—The Glynns of Lleiar, and Plas Newydd, near Glynn Llifon,
were branches of this family: the latter afterwards became the property
of the Owens of Bodowen, in Anglesey. The principal Roman encampment, in
this neighbourhood, is Dinas Dinlle, situated upon the verge of the Irish
Channel, and almost in the centre of Carnarvon Bay; the Western part of
it is washed by all the higher tides, and it is not more than ten or
fifteen yards above the sea at any other time; it not only commands the
Bay itself, its Creeks and Harbours, but has also a boundless prospect
towards the Main Ocean, or Irish Channel, anciently called Mare
Vergivium, and in Welsh, Môr Werydd, insomuch that no Vessel can pass to
the Southward, without being observed by those who keep a good look out
at their station. The following Roman and British Posts and Encampments,
being not far distant from the road, may be conveniently visited by the
curious Tourist, as he proceeds on his journey.—Many of them appear to
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