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Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland (1864)

Howitt, William, 1792-1879 · London : A.W. Bennett · leaf 50

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very fplendid town of Caernarvon, it is placed on the fliore ofthe Menai Straits ; and, looked down upon from a rockyeminence called Fort Hill, a good view is obtained of it and CAERNARVON CASTLE. 39 the town, of the Menai Straits, the oppofite fhore of Anglefea,with the diftant fiammits of the… … CAEKNAKVUN CASTLE. employed by Edward I., in its erection, was Henry Ellerton, orde Elreton ; and, according to tradition, many of the materialswere brought from Segontium, or the old Caernarvon, and muchof the limefl-one of which it is built came from Twr-Cclyn,in Anglefea ; and of the gritftone…

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