A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ABERGLASLYN, a pass in the southern vicinity of Beddgelert, 8 miles S of Snowdon, on the boundary between the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth. It is a gorge between cliffs about 700 feet high, which answer face to face, and look as if they had been split from each other by the vertical stroke of an earthquake; it forms, from end to end, a scene of terrific grandeur; and it is traversed by the eastern road from Carnarvon to Aberyst with, and has barely breadth enough of bottom to allow the road to pass. A rock in it is said to have been the favourite hannt of the poet Rhys Goch O'ryri, who flourished in the time of Owen Glendower. The rivulet Glaslyn scours the pass, and makes a grand cataract on leaving it at a one-arch bridge, called Pont Aberglaslyn, which stretches from rock to rock.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Administrative units: | Caernarvonshire AncC Merionethshire AncC |
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