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Encyclopedia Britannica



CRICCIETH

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 434 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CRE-DAH
CRICCIETH , a watering-place and contributory parliamentary borough of Carnarvonshire, Wales, on Cardigan Bay, served by the Cambrian railway. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 1406. It is interesting for its high antiquity and the ruined castle, a fortress on an eminence where a neck of land ends, projecting into the sea. Portions of two towers are on the very verge of the
rock
 . A
double
  fosse and vallum, with the outer and inner court lines, can be traced. Apparently British, the castle was repaired later, probably in the time of Edward I. Across the bay is seen Harlech castle, backed by the Merionethshire hills. An old county-family
mansion
  near Criccieth is Gwynfryn (happy hill), the seat of the Nanneys, situated near the stream Dwyfawr and within some 7 M. of Pwllheli. Not far is a tumulus, Tomen fawr. At a distance of 5 M. is Tremadoc (which owes its name, Town of Madocksas does Portmadocto Mr W. Madocks, of Morfa
Lodge
 , who made the embankment here). Criccieth has become a favourite watering-place, as well as a centre of excursions. The neighbourhood is agreeable, and the Cardigan Bay shore is shelving and suitable for safe bathing. Cantref y Gwaelod (the hundred of the bottom) is the Welsh literary name of this bay, on the shores of which geological depression has certainly taken place. Mythical history relates how Seithennin's drunkenness inundated the land now covered by the bay, and how King Arthur's ship was wrecked upon Meisdiroedd Enlli near Bardsey. The
Mabinogion
  tell how Harlech was a port. Similarly, in Carnarvon Bay, about 2 M. seaward, atlow water, are visible the ruins of Caerarianrhod (fortified town of the silver wheel), a submerged towndue to another geological depression.


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