A Book of North Wales

Montgomery--Offa’s Dyke--The castle--George Herbert--The church and its screen--The “Robber’s Grave”--Story of John Newton--Situation of Welshpool--The Severn Valley--Buttington...

Foundation of Bangor--Madog the Fox--The cathedral--Owen Gwynedd--Visit of Archbishop Baldwin--“Lazy-tongs”--Llanidan--Shrine of S. Nidan--Curious phenomenon of the filling stou...

The Lake of Bala--Estuary of the Mawddach--Barmouth--Cader Idris--The Torrent and Precipice Walks--“Welsh web”--Numerous lakes--Fishing in Wales--Treachery of David ab Llewelyn-...

THE pronunciation of this name demands a smattering of knowledge as to how to speak it intelligibly to a Welshman; but the clerks at railway stations delivering tickets to the p...

The Vale of Llangollen--S. Collen--A Breton Llangollen--Dinas Bran--Maelor--The old maids--The church--Vale Crucis--The pillar of Eliseg--Plas Eliseg--Owen ab Cadwgan and Nest--...

The “Mother of Wales”--Agricola--Invades Môn--Mines--Caswallon Long-hand--Drives out the Irish--Conquest by Edwin--Aberffraw--Characteristics of Anglesey--Plas Llanfair--Llandys...

The town of Conway--The castle--Title of Prince of Wales--Archbishop Williams--The church and its screen--Plas Mawr--Caer Seiont--Deganwy--The Yellow Plague--The Sweating Sickne...

The colonisation of Denbigh from the north--Denbigh Castle--Sir John o’ the two thumbs--Henry de Lacy--Projected transfer of cathedral to Denbigh--The Goblin Tower--Thomas Plant...

The promontory of Lleyn--Resemblance to Cornwall--Watering-places--Irish camps--Tre’r Ceiri--Nant Gwrtheyrn--End of Vortigern--Madryn--Holy wells of Llanaelhaiarn and Llangybi--...

Manufacture of cloth and flannel--Fine screen and ugly modern church--Sir John Pryce--Aberhafesp Church--S. Mark’s Eve--Bed of an ancient lake--Caersws--Legend of Swsan--Obligat...

Situation of the city--The cathedral--Tomb of Bishop Barrow--Epitaph of Dean Lloyd--The _Red Book of S. Asaph_--Dick of Aberdaron--Parish church--Catherine of Berain--Meiriadog-...

The Menai Straits to Holyhead--Llangadwaladr--The story of Cadwallon--Cadwaladr--Plague in 664--Ruskin on Holyhead--The old caer--Chapel of the Irishman--Story of S. Cybi--The m...

Beauty of shape of Snowdon--Vortigern retreated to it--Story of his castle--Merlin--S. Germanus--The last Llewelyn--Dolbadarn--Owen and David--Treachery--David Gam--Topography o...

Situation--The castle--Bronwen--Bronwen’s tomb--Dafydd ab Ifan--“March of the Men of Harlech”--Prehistoric remains--Llanfair--Ellis Wynne--_Visions of the Sleeping Bard_--Sam Ba...

General characteristics--The Iberian race--Linguistic survivals--Brython and Goidel--Roman conquest--Irish occupation of Wales--Their expulsion by Cunedda--Saxon occupation of B...

THROUGHOUT the reigns of the Saxon kings the Welsh had to maintain a contest, on the one hand with the English, and on the other with the Danes and Northmen hovering round the c...