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Title: A topographical dictionary of Wales, comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, chapelries, and townships, with historical and statistical descriptions; illustrated by maps of the different counties; and a map of Wales ... and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishopricks, corporate towns, and boroughs; and of the seals of the several municipal corporations. With an appendix, describing the electoral boundaries of the several boroughs, as defined by the late act
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Lewis, Samuel, d. 1865
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Publisher: London, S. Lewis and co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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, of which the present name of the town of Car-narvon is a contraction. On the conquest of Wales byEdward I., this name was also appropriated to the shire,which was then created, and which comprises the wholeof the ancient province of Arvon (excepting only thecomot of Ardudwy, which is in that of Merioneth), withthe addition of the comot of Creuddyn, taken from theprovince of Perveddwlad. The ancient British inhabit-ants were the Ordovices, who occupied the whole of NorthWales. After the Roman conquest of South Britain,which was first extended into this part of it by Sueto-nius Paulinus, soon after the year 58, it was included inthe district called Venedotia, forming part of the greatprovince of Britannia Secunda. Under the Roman do-minion, the territory forming the present county ofCarnarvon contained the station Segontium, which wassituated close to the town of Carnarvon, and that ofConovium, at Caerhen, or Caerhun, near Aberconway ;besides being traversed by two considerable roads,
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CAR CAR viz., the Via Occidentalis, which entered it from thestation Heriri Mons at Tommen y Mur, in the parish ofFestiniog, in Merionethshire, and proceeded directly toSegontium; and a branch of the northern Watling-street,which entered it from the north-western parts of Den-bighshire, and passed by Conovium also to Segontium.The latter place (called by the Welsh Caer Segont), andDeganwy, on the eastern bank of the Conway, at itsmouth, were for a long period the residences of theprinces of North Wales, affording greater safety fortheir families than any other places in their dominions,during the almost perpetual warfare in which they wereengaged. Caswallon, the first prince of North Walesof whom we find any authentic account, had his seat ofgovernment at Aberfraw, in Anglesey; but his son andsuccessor, Maelgwyn, usually resided at Deganwy in thiscounty; and it was he who, in the year 552, endowedthe see of Bangor with lands and franchises, and builtthe town of that name near the shor

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