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Conwy, the Glossary

Conwy, previously known in English as Conway, is a walled market town, community and the administrative centre of Conwy County Borough in North Wales.^[1]

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Towns in Conwy County Borough

A55 road

The A55, also known as the North Wales Expressway (Gwibffordd Gogledd Cymru), is a major road in Wales and England, connecting Cheshire and North Wales.

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Aberconwy (Senedd constituency)

Aberconwy is a constituency of the Senedd.

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Aberconwy Abbey

Aberconwy Abbey was a Cistercian foundation at Conwy, later transferred to Maenan near Llanrwst, and in the 13th century was the most important abbey in the north of Wales.

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Aberconwy House

Aberconwy House, 2 Castle Street, Conwy, Wales is a medieval merchant's house and one of the oldest dateable houses in Wales.

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Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.

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Ancient borough

An ancient borough was a historic unit of lower-tier local government in England and Wales.

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In architecture, an apse (apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς,, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis;: apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra.

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Arriva Buses Wales

Arriva Buses Wales (Bysiau Arriva Cymru) is a bus operator providing services in northern Wales and Chester in northern England.

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Bangor Aberconwy (UK Parliament constituency)

Bangor Aberconwy is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, that was first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.

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Bangor railway station (Wales)

Bangor railway station serves the city of Bangor, Gwynedd; it is operated by Transport for Wales.

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Birmingham International railway station

Birmingham International is a railway station known by code "BHI" in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands of England, just east of Birmingham.

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Bodysgallen Hall

Bodysgallen Hall is a manor house in Conwy county borough, north Wales, near the village of Llanrhos.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Cadw

italic (a Welsh verbal noun meaning "keeping/preserving") is the historic environment service of the Welsh Government and part of the Tourism and Culture group.

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Caernarfonshire

Until 1974, Caernarfonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), sometimes spelled Caernarvonshire or Carnarvonshire, was an administrative county in the north-west of Wales, later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Cardiff Central railway station

Cardiff Central (Caerdydd Canolog) is a major station on the South Wales Main Line.

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Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site located in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Chester and Holyhead Railway

The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as well as ordinary railway objectives.

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Chester railway station

Chester railway station is located in Newtown, Chester, England.

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Clwyd

Clwyd is a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east corner of the country; it is named after the River Clwyd, which runs through the area.

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Colwyn Bay railway station

Colwyn Bay railway station (Bae Colwyn) is on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line serving the seaside town of Colwyn Bay in North Wales.

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A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Conwy (electoral ward)

Conwy is the name of one of the electoral wards in the town and community of Conwy, Conwy County Borough, Wales.

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Conwy Castle

Conwy Castle (Castell Conwy) is a fortification in Conwy, located in North Wales.

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Conwy County Borough

Conwy County Borough (Bwrdeistref Sirol Conwy) is a county borough in the north of Wales.

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Conwy County Borough Council

Conwy County Borough Council (Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Conwy) is the local authority for Conwy County Borough, one of the principal areas of Wales.

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Conwy Guildhall

Conwy Guildhall (Neuadd y Dref Conwy) is a municipal structure in Rose Hill Street, Conwy, Wales.

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Conwy Hospital

Conwy Hospital (Ysbyty Conwy) was a community hospital in Conwy, Wales.

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Conwy Railway Bridge

The Conwy Railway Bridge carries the North Wales coast railway line across the River Conwy between Llandudno Junction and the town of Conwy.

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Conwy railway station

Conwy railway station serves the town of Conwy, north Wales, and is located on the North Wales Main Line, between and.

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Conwy Suspension Bridge

The Conwy Suspension Bridge is a Grade I-listed structure and is one of the first road suspension bridges in the world.

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Conwy Town Council

Conwy Town Council is an elected community council serving the community of Conwy in Conwy County Borough, North Wales.

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Conwy town walls

Conwy's town walls are a medieval defensive structure around the town of Conwy in Wales.

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Crewe railway station

Crewe railway station serves the railway town of Crewe, in Cheshire, England.

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D-class lifeboat (IB1)

The D-class (IB1) lifeboats are inflatable boats serving in the RNLI inshore lifeboat (ILB) fleet as well as a number of Independent Lifeboats around the UK and Ireland.

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Deganwy

Deganwy is a town and electoral ward in Conwy County Borough in Wales with a population of 3,936 (2011). Conwy and Deganwy are towns in Conwy County Borough.

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District of Aberconwy

The Borough of Aberconwy was a local government district with borough status from 1974 to 1996, being one of five districts in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales.

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Dwygyfylchi

Dwygyfylchi is a village in Conwy County Borough, Wales.

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Edward I of England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

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Elizabethan architecture

Elizabethan architecture refers to buildings of a certain medieval style constructed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603.

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Flint railway station

Flint railway station (Y Fflint) serves the town of Flint in Flintshire, North Wales.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in the north-west of Wales.

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Holyhead railway station

Holyhead railway station (Gorsaf reilffordd Caergybi) serves the Welsh town of Holyhead (Caergybi) on Holy Island, Anglesey.

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Hugh Iorys Hughes

Hugh Iorys Hughes (16 April 1902 – 16 August 1977) was a Welsh civil engineer and keen yachtsman who submitted ideas to the War Office for the design of the Mulberry harbours used in Operation Overlord.

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List of cities with defensive walls

The following cities have, or historically had, defensive walls. Conwy and List of cities with defensive walls are Fortified settlements.

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Llandudno Junction

Llandudno Junction (Cyffordd Llandudno), once known as Tremarl, is a village in Conwy County Borough, Wales. Conwy and Llandudno Junction are towns in Conwy County Borough.

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Llanrhos

Llanrhos (English: 'Church on the moor') is a village in the community of Conwy, in Conwy County Borough, Wales.

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Llywelyn ab Iorwerth

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (– 11 April 1240), also known as Llywelyn the Great (Llywelyn Fawr), was a medieval Welsh ruler.

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Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c. 1223 – 11 December 1282), Llywelyn II, also known as Llywelyn the Last (lit), was King of Gwynedd, and later was recognised as the prince of Wales (Princeps Walliae; Tywysog Cymru) from 1258 until his death at Cilmeri in 1282.

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Maenan Abbey

Maenan Abbey (formally: The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and All Saints; alternatively: Abaty Maenan, or Maynan Abbey; now Maenan Abbey Hotel) was a monastic religious house located in Maenan, Conwy, Wales.

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Morfa Conwy

Morfa Conwy is a spit formed originally of marshy sand, north of the western end of the modern A55 entrance to Conwy in Conwy county borough, north-west Wales.

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Mulberry harbours

The Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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Municipal borough

A municipal borough was a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1836 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002.

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Municipal Corporations Act 1835

The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 76), sometimes known as the Municipal Reform Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in the incorporated boroughs of England and Wales.

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Mynydd y Dref

mountain of the town, also known as Conwy Mountain, is a hilly area to the west of the town of Conwy, in North Wales.

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National Trust

The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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North Wales

North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is a region of Wales, encompassing its northernmost areas.

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North Wales Main Line

The North Wales Main Line (Prif Linell Gogledd Cymru or Prif Linell y Gogledd), also known as the North Wales Coast Line (Llinell Arfordir Gogledd Cymru), is a major railway line in the north of Wales and Cheshire, England, running from Crewe on the West Coast Main Line to Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conwy

Also known as Conway, Carnarvonshire, Conway, Wales, Conwy (town).

, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Maenan Abbey, Morfa Conwy, Mulberry harbours, Municipal borough, Municipal Corporations Act 1835, Mynydd y Dref, National Trust, North Wales, North Wales Main Line, Operation Overlord, Parish church, Penmaenmawr, Plas Mawr, Post town, Prestatyn railway station, Principality of Wales, Rhyl railway station, River Conwy, Robert Stephenson, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Secretary of State for Wales, Smallest House in Great Britain, St Mary and All Saints' Church, Conwy, Sychnant Pass, Thomas Telford, Transport for Wales, Tubular bridge, Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, William FitzMaurice (Buckinghamshire MP), World Heritage Site.

Conwy, the Glossary

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Towns in Conwy County Borough

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