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CAPEL CURIG

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 249 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAPEL CURIG , a tourist resort in See also:Carnarvonshire, See also:North See also:Wales, 141 M. from See also:Bangor. It is a collection of a few houses, too scattered to See also:form a See also:village properly so called. At the See also:Roberts hotel is shown on a window See also:pane the supposed See also:signature of See also:Wellington. The road from Bettws y coed, past the See also:Swallow Falls to Capel Curig, and thence to See also:Llanberis and See also:Carnarvon, is very interesting, See also:grand and lonely. Excellent fishing is to be had here, chiefly for See also:trout. In summer, coaching See also:tours See also:discharge See also:numbers of visitors daily; the railway station is Bettws (See also:London & North-Western railway). Capel Curig means " See also:chapel of Curig," a See also:British See also:saint mentioned in Welsh See also:poetry. The See also:place is a centre for artists, geologists and botanists, for the ascent of See also:Snowdon, Moel Siabod, Glydyr Fawr, Glydyr Fach, Tryfan, &c., and for visiting Llyn Ogwen, Llyn Idwal, TwIl du (See also:Devil's See also:Kitchen). Nant Ffrancon and the See also:Penrhyn quarries.

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