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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… an occurrence. Situated near the termination of the Menai straits, and having a station on the Holyhead railway, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Carnarvon by the long, narrow, and rocky strait called the Menai. It extends from 53 6' to 53 23' (N. Lat.), and from 4 … continental part of North Wales, this general crossed the Menai by means of flat-bottomed boats, and by swimming that … Porthamel ferry, five miles westward from the site of the Menai suspension bridge. Before, however, Suetonius had …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… [his petition concerning South Crook Ferry on the river Menai in North Wales is read and] ref[ erred to the] Surveyor …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… where the road from the park wall of Penrhyn Castle to the Menai straits joins the straits at the high-water mark, along … direct to the spot where the road from Bangor to the Menai bridge leaves the road from Bangor to Carnarvon; thence … to the point at which the low-water mark in the Straits of Menai would be cut by a right line drawn from the gate last …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Welsh forces under Richard ab Walwyn, after crossing the Menai strait, at low water, by a bridge of boats. At this … a fine opening towards the adjacent straits of the Menai, commanding an extensive view of the beautiful bay of … also large cattle fairs, called "Borth fairs," held at the Menai bridge, in the parish, on August 26th, September 26th, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… but now a fertile plain, on the western shore of the Menai strait, near its junction with the Irish Sea, where it … with the castle of Bangor, they commanded the whole of the Menai strait, and reduced the islanders to the lowest state … and plantations of Baron Hill, above the shores of the Menai, and continued for nearly five miles, forms one of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the brilliant success which had attended his arms at the Menai straits, was to hold a conference with some of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… CEIDIO (RHD-GEIDIO), a parish, in the hundred of Menai, union and county of Anglesey, North Wales; comprising …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… which, rising in the lake of Lln Peris, falls into the Menai strait, contiguous to Carnarvon Castle. Segontium was … into the bay of Carnarvon, and bounded on one side by the Menai, on another by the estuary of the Seiont, and on the … for the conveyance of both which heavy substances the Menai afforded every facility. In the year 1286, some portion …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… is his Majesty's tenant of the said ferry upon the river Menai between the counties of Carnarvon and Anglesea, has …