Conwy | River Conwy | Conwy County Borough | Peter Rowley-Conwy | ''Penillion singing near Conwy'' (1792) by Julius Caesar Ibbetson | Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford | Craig y Forwyn, Conwy |
Birkbeck College, London, ISBN 0-7187-0876-8 (with Peter Rowley-Conwy)
Together with the work of Charles Fairbairn, particularly in relation to Stephenson's tubular bridges such as Conwy, there was an increased understanding of how beams in compression would fail by buckling.
The Conwy Valley Line was constructed by the London and North Western Railway with the primary aim of transporting dressed slate from the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries to a specially built quay at Deganwy for export by sea.
The most notable of the other tubular bridges were Stephenson's Conwy railway bridge between Llandudno Junction and Conwy, and Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence River at Montreal.
Waterloo Bridge, which carries the A5 across the River Conwy to Betws-y-Coed, was built by Thomas Telford in 1815, the year of the Battle of Waterloo, and is made wholly from cast iron.
The Cambrian Way is a long distance footpath in Wales (or Cambria) running from Cardiff to Conwy.
It contains the major settlements of Llandudno, Llandudno Junction, Llanrwst, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, Colwyn Bay, Abergele, Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan, and has a total population of 115,000, the vast majority of which lives along the coast.
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The River Conwy, after which the county borough is named, lies wholly within the area: rising in Snowdonia and flowing through Llanrwst and Trefriw en route to the Irish Sea by Conwy.
Before the English construction of the town of Conwy, the site was occupied by Aberconwy Abbey, a Cistercian monastery favoured by the Welsh princes.
Born in Colwyn Bay, Conwy, North Wales, Sidlow played for Llandudno, Colwyn Bay and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Undaunted, Henry proceeded as far as the river Conwy, and began building a new castle at Deganwy.
In the 1350s the Black Death took a heavy toll in the lower Conwy Valley, particularly among the bond tenants regulated by the King's officers from Aberconwy, Edward I's new English borough.
Prototypes of the harbours were constructed at Conwy in North Wales and then transported and positioned in Wigtown Bay, where they were tested and modified through 1943 and 1944.
Today the area is mostly contained within the unitary authorities of Conwy, Denbighshire and Flintshire.
Mynydd Hiraethog, upland region in Conwy and Denbighshire in north-east Wales
The owners of the Conwy farm bought 15 Rhode Island Red chickens two weeks prior but all died from H7N2.
The Tarannon shales, grey and blue slates, designated by Adam Sedgwick the Paste Rock, is traceable from Conwy into Carmarthenshire; in Ceredigion, there are gritty beds; and in the neighbourhood of Builth, soft dark shales.
Rhos-on-Sea (or Llandrillo-yn-Rhos), a suburb of Colwyn Bay in Conwy
Llyn Conwy was at one time owned and looked after by Lord Penrhyn, who kept the lake well stocked.
Milton C. Jones (born 4 August 1894 in Conwy, Wales; died 27 May 1932 in Indianapolis, Indiana) was an American racecar driver.
Sited on the North Wales Coast Line from Chester to Holyhead, it was the location of experimental trackside water troughs, from which passing steam locomotives could scoop up fresh water supplies without having to stop.
He is the son of Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford.
However, problems with resupply in the event of siege and its destruction by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales in 1263 to prevent it falling into King Edward's hands, led to a new castle being built across the water in Conwy town.
The diocese covers an area of 8,361 km² of the ancient counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire (the local government areas of Conwy, Anglesey, Denbighshire and Flintshire, Gwynedd, Wrexham and the former Montgomeryshire).
For their Welsh excursions they rented Benarth, a house near Conwy, where they were visited by Uvedale Price among others.
As would be fitting for an upwardly mobile Manchester family, A. H. Stott bought the Pensychnant Estate, near Conway in Gwynedd.
This led to a place alongside Ysgol Y Creuddyn, Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy and Ysgol Aberconwy in Band 2, in the Conwy Round of best schools in North Wales.
The school is the predominant Welsh language school in the area, and it serves pupils from a wide area including Abergele, Colwyn Bay, Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, Llandudno, Llanfairfechan, Llansannan, Penmaenmawr and Eglwysbach.