Day 03

Sights mostly North of Snowdonia.

Simon Skittrell 2005
 
Conwy Castle
Oct 3, 2005

Another of Edward I's castle built in a ring around Snowdonia to subdue the Welsh.

http://www.castlewales.com/conwy.html

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Conwy Town
Oct 3, 2005

A walled town built at the same time as the castle.

http://www.historicconwy.co.uk/

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Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mines
Oct 3, 2005

Bronze is made out of Copper and Tin. At this mine the largest pre-historic mine in Britain Bronze Age man mined for Copper.

http://www.greatormemines.info/

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Great Ormes Head
Oct 3, 2005

Orme comes from the Norse for worm or serpent as the penisula looked like a worms head to the Vikings that sailed the Irish sea.

http://www.llandudno.com/orme.html

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Rhuddlan Castle
Oct 3, 2005

Yet another of Edward I's ring of castles. Each is said to be a days march apart, so it must have been a days march West to Conwy, South to Denbigh, and East to Flint.

http://www.castlewales.com/rhudln.html

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Denbeigh Castle
Oct 3, 2005

Another of Edward I's castles.

http://www.castlewales.com/denbigh.html

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Llyn Brenig Archaeological Trail
Oct 3, 2005

Llyn Brenig is a reservior, at the North end there is an archaeological trail with some interesting pre-historic monuments.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/llyn_brenig.htm

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Snowdonia
Oct 3, 2005

Views of Snowdonia from the North (position shown on co-ords) and within (Llanberis Pass).

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