Aberdaron, Gwynedd - Y Gegin Fawr - Raphael Tuck real photo postcard c.1950s

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• Picture / Image:  Y Gegin Fawr, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, formerly Caernarvonshire
• Publisher:  Raphael Tuck Real Photograph series
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Aberdaron is a community and former fishing village at the western tip of the Llyn Peninsula (Welsh: Penrhyn Llyn) in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It lies 14.8 miles (23.8 km) west of Pwllheli and 33.5 miles (53.9 km) south west of Caernarfon, and has a population of 965.^[1] It is sometimes referred to as the ""Land's End of Wales"" (Welsh: Pendraw'r Byd).^[2] The community includes Bardsey Island (Welsh: Ynys Enlli), the coastal area around Porthor, and the villages of Anelog, Llanfaelrhys, Penycaerau, Rhoshirwaun, Rhydlios, Uwchmynydd and Y Rhiw.^[3]

The village was the last rest stop for pilgrims heading to Bardsey Island, the legendary ""island of 20,000 saints"". In the 18th and 19th centuries it developed as a shipbuilding centre and port. The mining and quarrying industries became major employers, and limestone, lead, jasper and manganese were exported, and there are the ruins of an old pier running out to sea at Porth Simdde, which is the local name for the west end of Aberdaron Beach. After the Second World War the mining industry collapsed, and Aberdaron gradually developed into a popular holiday resort.^[4] The beach was awarded a Seaside Award in 2008.^[5]

The coastal waters are part of Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau Special Area of Conservation (Welsh: Ardal Cadwraeth Arbennig Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau), one of the largest marine designated sites in the United Kingdom.^[6] The coast itself forms part of the Aberdaron Coast and Bardsey Island Special Protection Area (Welsh: Ardal Gwarchodaeth Arbennig Glannau Aberdaron ac Ynys Enlli),^[7] and was designated a Heritage Coast in 1974.^[8] In 1956 the area was included in Llyn Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Welsh: Ardal o Harddwch Naturiol Eithriadol Llyn).^[9][10] Conservation Areas have been created in Aberdaron, Bardsey Island and Y Rhiw;^[8] and the area has been designated a Landscape of Historic Interest.^[11]

Two stone bridges, Pont Fawr (English: Large Bridge) and Pont Fach (English: Small Bridge), built in 1823, cross the Afon Daron and Afon Cyll y Felin in the centre of Aberdaron. Beyond the bridges the road opens up to create a small market square.^[14] The Old Post Office was designed by Portmerion architect, Clough Williams-Ellis.^[2]

Y Gegin Fawr (English: The Big Kitchen) was built in the 13th century as a communal kitchen where pilgrims could claim a meal on their way to Bardsey Island.^[82] Aberdaron was the last place on the route for rest and refreshment and pilgrims often had to wait weeks in the village for a chance to cross the treacherous waters of Bardsey Sound (Welsh: Swnt Enlli).^[2]

Next to the car park is a field, Cae y Grogbren (English: Gallows Field), near which is a large red rock. In the Middle Ages, the abbot from the monastery on Bardsey Island visited the rock to dispense justice to local criminals; if they were found guilty, the wrongdoer would be hanged and thrown into Pwll Ddiwaelod (English: The Bottomless Pool). The pool is a kettle lake, formed at the end of the Ice Age, when blocks of ice were trapped underground and melted to form round, deep pools.^[83]

Above the village, on the Afon Daron, stands Bodwrdda, an early-16th-century stone-built house, which had a fulling mill adjacent; two large brick-built wings were added later, giving an imposing three-storey facade containing 17th-century windows. To the south, Penrhyn Mawr is a substantial late-18th-century gable-fronted farmhouse.^[84]

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=caernarvonshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted