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wales
anglesey
brecknockshire
caernarfonshire
carmarthenshire
cardiganshire
denbighshire
flintshire
glamorgan
merioneth
monmouthshire
montgomeryshire
pembrokeshire
radnorshire
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Merioneth/Meirionnydd (Dolgellau, Bala, Tywyn, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Barmouth,
Harlech)
The County of Merioneth is 108 Miles in
Circumference, contains about 500,000 Acres, & divided into 6
Hundreds; in the North are 3 Market Towns, but none of them nor any
other Town in this County, are represented in Parliament; has 37
Parishes & about 2590 Houses.
The County being full of Mountains, &
barren, so extraordinary steep, that Persons may talk from the
top of one Mountain and be heard by those that stand on the other.
!!
Here are great Flocks of Sheep, & Goats,
Herds of Cattle, Deer, Fowl, Fish of all sorts, cheifly Herring in
their Season.
Between 1877 and 1881, William Thomas of
Llanrhuddlad, Anglesey - a ship broker in Liverpool - and his
friends were responsible for building seven ships bearing the names
of Welsh counties. The first was the "County of Flint" - an iron
barque of 1083 tons - built by Doxford of Sunderland in 1877.
The "County of Merioneth" - a three-masted barque - ?was built in
1880 to a design by William Thomas and W.E.Jones, a ship-builder
from Felinheli (Port Dinorwic), Caernarvonshire. It is reported that
this ship in 1887/8, under the command of Captain Robert Thomas, of
Llandwrog, Caernarvonshire, made the fastest voyage ever from
Cardiff to San Francisco.
Counties
Wales Anglesey,
Brecknockshire,
Caernarfonshire
Carmarthenshire,
Cardiganshire,
Denbighshire
Flintshire,
Glamorgan,
Merioneth
Monmouthshire,
Montgomeryshire,
Pembrokeshire,
Radnorshire |
