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FESTINIOG (or FFESTINIOG)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FESTINIOG (or FFESTINIOG)

FESTINIOG (or FFESTINIOG) , a See also:

TOWN

town of Merionethshire, See also:

North See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, at the See also:

head of the Festiniog valley, 600 ft. above the See also:

sea, in the midst of rugged scenery, near the stream Dwyryd, 31 M. from See also:

Conway. Pop. of See also:

urban See also:

DISTRICT

district (1901), 11,435. There are many large See also:

SLATE (properly CLAY SLATE; in M. Eng. slat or sclat, from O. Fr. esclat, a small piece of wood used as a tile; esclater, to break into pieces, whence modern Fr. eclat, the root being seen also in Ger. schleissen, to split)

slate quarries in this See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish, especially at Blaenau Festiniog, the junction of three See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, See also:

LONDON

London & North Western, See also:

GREAT

Great Western and Festiniog, a narrow-See also:

GAUGE, or GAGE (Med. Lat. gauja, jaugia, Fr. jauge, perhaps connected with Fr. jale, a bowl, galon, gallon)

gauge See also:

LINE

line between Portmadoc and Duffws. This See also:

LIGHT

light railway runs at a considerable See also:

ELEVATION

elevation (some 700 ft.), commanding a view across the valley and See also:

lake of Tan -y Bwlch, See also:

Lord See also:

Lyttelton's See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to Mr See also:

BOWER, WALTER (1385-1449)

Bower is a well-known See also:

PANEGYRIC

panegyric on Festiniog. Thousands of workmen are employed in the slate quarries. The Cynfael falls are famous. Near are Beddau gwyr Ardudwy(the See also:

GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

graves of the men of Ardudwy), memorials of a fight to recover See also:

WOMEN

women of the Clwyd valley from the men of Ardudwy. Near, too, is a See also:

rock named " See also:

Hugh See also:

Lloyd's See also:

PULPIT (from Lat. pulpitum, a staging, platform: equivalents are Fr. chaire d'eglise, Ital. pulpito, Ger. Kanzel)

pulpit " (Lloyd lived in the See also:

time of See also:

Charles I., See also:

Cromwell and Charles II.).

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