Mediæval town planning : a lecture delivered at the John Rylands Library on the 13th December, 1916 (1917)
Tout, T. F. (Thomas Frederick), 1855-1929 · Manchester : The University Press, [etc.] · leaf 39
greatly until the increasein the size of ships, and the silting up of the river left the boroughhigh and dry, so that the suggestion that the deserted village wasever a seaport seems to modern visitors ridiculous. The advantageof the site of Conway, dominating the passage of a broad river… … ? E 1! c MEDI/EVAL TOWN PLANNING 23 banks of the Menai Straits, are obvious on the face of things. And thatEdward took pains with his choice of sites is clear from the troublelavished and the misunderstandings faced when he chose as the site ofConway the hallowed Cistercian monastery which was the…
City planning · Cities and towns, Medieval
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