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Encyclopedia Britannica



FESTINIOG (or FFESTINIOG)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 294 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FESTINIOG (or FFESTINIOG) , a town of Merionethshire, North Wales, at the head of the Festiniog valley, 600 ft. above the sea, in the midst of rugged scenery, near the stream Dwyryd, 31 M. from Conway. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901), 11,435. There are many large slate quarries in this parish, especially at Blaenau Festiniog, the junction of three railways, London & North Western,
Great
  Western and Festiniog, a narrow-gauge line between Portmadoc and Duffws. This light railway runs at a considerable
elevation
  (some 700 ft.), commanding a view across the valley and lake of Tan -y Bwlch, Lord
Lyttelton
 's
letter
  to Mr Bower is a well-known panegyric on Festiniog. Thousands of workmen are employed in the slate quarries. The Cynfael falls are famous. Near are Beddau gwyr Ardudwy(the
graves
  of the men of Ardudwy), memorials of a fight to recover women of the Clwyd valley from the men of Ardudwy. Near, too, is a
rock
  named " Hugh
Lloyd
 's pulpit " (
Lloyd
  lived in the time of Charles I., Cromwell and Charles II.).


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