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CARNARVON

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 360 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARNARVON , a See also:

market See also:town and municipal See also:borough, and the See also:county town of See also:Carnarvonshire, See also:north See also:Wales, 681 m. W. of See also:Chester by the See also:London & North-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 9760. It stands very nearly on the site of Caer Seint, See also:capital of the Segontiaci, and was fortified in 1098 by See also:Hugh See also:Lupus, See also:earl of Chester, after See also:Roman occupation, a fort, See also:baths and See also:villa, with coins and pottery, having been exhumed here. As the See also:castle was begun only in 1284, See also:Edward II., supposed to have been See also:born in its See also:Eagle See also:Tower on the extreme See also:west, can only have been born outside. The castle is an irregular oblong See also:building on the west of the town, surrounded by walls and having thirteen polygonal towers. There is still much of the town See also:wall extant. The See also:parish See also:church (Llanbeblig) is some See also:half-mile out of the town, the institutions of which include a town and county See also:hall, a training See also:college, and a See also:gaol for See also:Anglesey and Carnarvonshire jointly. Manufactures in the town are scanty, but See also:Llanberis and Llanllyfni export hence slates, " sets " and See also:copper ore. A See also:steam See also:ferry unites Carnarvon and Tan y foel, Anglesey, while a summer service of steamers runs to Menai See also:Bridge, See also:Bardsey, &c. The borough forms See also:part of a See also:district returning a member to See also:parliament since 1536.

_ To this district the Reform See also:

Act added See also:Bangor. The county See also:quarter sessions and assizes are held in the town, which has a See also:separate See also:commission of the See also:peace, but no separate See also:court of quarter sessions. Three weekly Welsh (besides See also:English) See also:newspapers are published here.

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