North Wales (part 1) Chester, Rhyl, Llandudno, Bangor [etc.], Part 1 |
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Aberdaron Anglesey ascent Bangor Beaumaris Beddgelert bend Bethesda Bettws-y-Coed cairn Capel Curig Carnarvon Carnedd Dafydd Carnedd Llewelyn cart-track Castle church cliff close Clwydian Colwyn Conway cottage crossing Cynicht descend direction distance Dolwyddelen east enter excursion Fairy Glen feet Ffestiniog Foel Fras Foel Llys follow gate Glyder-fach Glyders green half-a-mile height hill Holyhead Hotel lake lane Llanberis Llandudno Llanfairfechan Llanrwst Llugwy Llyn main road Menai Bridge miles Moel Fammau Moel Hebog Moel Siabod Moel Wnion Moelwyn mountain Nant Ffrancon Nantlle Nevin Ogwen Orme pass path peak of Snowdon Pen-y-gwryd Penmaenmawr Penrhyn picturesque Portmadoc Pwllheli quarries rail railway reach Rhuddlan Rhyd-ddu Rhyl ridge rises river rock round route Ruthin scenery short side slope Snowdon Ranger Snowdonia station steep Straits stream summit Tal-y-cafn Tan-y-Bwlch Thence tourist tower town track Trefriw Tryfan turn valley village Wales walk wall wooded yards
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Page x - FARE, with superior Sleeping Accommodation, 45s. Or including MEALS, 80s. The Route is through scenery rich in historical interest and unequalled for grandeur and variety. These vessels leave Glasgow every Monday and Thursday about 12 Noon, and Greenock about 5 pm, returning from Stornoway every Monday and Wednesday. The Steamship
Page vi - KINGDOM. Holders of Tourist Tickets are allowed to break their journey at several stations en route, and visit at their leisure places of interest in the vicinity. The...
Page viii - LONDON (Euston), BIRMINGHAM, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, LEEDS, BRADFORD, and other places in England. Sleeping and Day Saloon Carriages. Through Guards and Conductors. The Caledonian Company's Trains from and to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Carlisle, &c., connect on the Clyde with the ' Columba,' ' lona,'
Page x - Sails daily from May till October, from Glasgow at 7 am, and from Greenock about 9 am, in connection with Express Trains from London and the South, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, &c...
Page 25 - This fragment is the remains of the building where King Edward the First held his Parliament, AD 1283, in which was passed the Statute of Rhuddlan, securing to the Principality of Wales its judicial rights and independence.
Page vii - The Scenery traversed by and adjacent to the Cambrian Railways is of an exceedingly varied and beautiful description, and the Coast of Cardigan Bay, to which the line affords the most convenient access, offers great advantages for sea-bathing, in the long reaches of firm, safe, and sandy beach, with which it abounds, and in its pure and bracing air. The mountain ranges of SNOWDON...
Page viii - Guide," which can be had at any of the Company's Stations, and also at the chief Stations on the London and North-Western Railway, and which contains descriptive notices of the Districts embraced in the Tours, Maps, Plans, Bird'sBye View, &c.
Page xxiv - Its own ornamental grounds of more than 12 acres. 500 feet above the level of the sea, overlooking the Bristol Channel, commands uninterrupted views of the Valleys of the East and West Lynn, Lynn Cliff, Brendon and Countisbury Hills, The Tors, the Village of Lynmouth, the Foreland, the Welsh Coast, and the far-famed Valley of Rocks. Having been under the management of the present proprietor nearly 50 years, the Hotel has been recently and extensively enlarged to meet the requirements of modern society,...
Page xxiv - LYNTON, NORTH DEVON. THE ROYAL CASTLE FAMILY HOTEL. Patronised by HRH the Prince of Wales and other Members of the Royal Family.
Page vi - ENGLAND — pass through the most picturesque scenery in Devonshire and Cornwall, extending from Exeter to Plymouth, Falmouth, St. Ives, Penzance, and the Land's End ; while the Broad Gauge Carriages running in the Fast Express Trains to and from the West of England, for which they have been specially built, are THE FINEST RAILWAY CARRIAGES IN ORDINARY USE IN THE KINGDOM.