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CRICCIETH , a watering-See also:place and contributory See also:parliamentary See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Carnarvonshire, See also:Wales, on See also:Cardigan See also:Bay, served by the See also:Cambrian railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 1406. It is interesting for its high antiquity and the ruined See also:castle, a fortress on an See also:eminence where a See also:neck of See also:land ends, projecting into the See also:sea. Portions of two towers are on the very See also:verge of the See also:rock. A See also:double See also:fosse and vallum, with the See also:outer and inner See also:court lines, can be traced. Apparently See also:British, the castle was repaired later, probably in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Edward I. Across the bay is seen See also:Harlech castle, backed by the Merionethshire hills. An old See also:county-See also:family See also:mansion near Criccieth is Gwynfryn (happy See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill), the seat of the Nanneys, situated near the stream Dwyfawr and within some 7 M. of See also:Pwllheli. Not far is a See also:tumulus, Tomen fawr. At a distance of 5 M. is Tremadoc (which owes its name, See also:Town of Madocks—as does Portmadoc—to Mr W. Madocks, of Morfa See also:Lodge, who made the See also:embankment here). Criccieth has become a favourite watering-place, as well as a centre of excursions. The neighbourhood is agreeable, and the Cardigan Bay See also:shore is shelving and suitable for safe bathing. Cantref y Gwaelod (the See also:hundred of the bottom) is the Welsh See also:literary name of this bay, on the shores of which See also:geological depression has certainly taken place. Mythical See also:history relates how Seithennin's See also:drunkenness inundated the land now covered by the bay, and how See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Arthur's See also:ship was wrecked upon Meisdiroedd Enlli near See also:Bardsey. The See also:Mabinogion tell how Harlech was a See also:port. Similarly, in See also:Carnarvon Bay, about 2 M. seaward, atlow See also:water, are visible the ruins of Caerarianrhod (fortified town of the See also:silver See also:wheel), a submerged town—due to another geological depression.
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