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Encyclopedia Britannica



COLWYN BAY

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 748 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COLWYN BAY , a watering-place of Denbighshire, N. Wales, on the Irish Sea, 402 M. from Chester by the London & North-Western railway. Pop. of urban
district
  of Colwyn Bay and Colwyn (1901) 8689. Colwyn Bay has become a favourite bathing-place, being near to, and cheaper than, the fashionable Llandudno, and being a centre for picturesque excursions. Near it is Llaneilian
village
 , famous for its " cursing well " (St Ellian's, perhaps Aelianus'). The stream Colwyn joins the Gwynnant. The name Colwyn is that of lords of Ardudwy; a Lord Colwyn of Ardudwy, in the loth
century
 , is believed to have repaired Harlech
castle
 , and is considered the founder of one of the fifteen tribes of North Wales. Nant Colwyn is on the road from Carnarvon to Beddgelert, beyond Llyn y gader (gadair), " chair pool," and what tourists have. fancifully called
Pitt
 's head, a roadside
rock
  resembling, or thought to resemble, the
great
  statesman's profile. Near this is Llyn y dywarchen (sod pool), with a floating
island
 .


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