Betwys-y-Coed, Conwy - Swallow Falls - RP postcard c.1960s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy [formerly Caernarvonshire] - real photo type
• Publisher:  none given
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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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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Swallow Falls is a name coined by early tourists for the Rhaeadr Ewynnol (English: Foaming Waterfall), a multiple waterfall system in Wales, located on the Afon Llugwy near Betws-y-Coed, in Conwy county borough. It is visited by tens of thousands of tourists annually.

It is thought that the English name arose from a mis-hearing of the Welsh word ewynnol (foaming) as the similar-sounding gwennol (swallow).^[1]

In 1913 the second Lord Ancaster, the landowner, gave the Swallow Falls to the local council, who decided to make a charge for visiting it in order to pay off some of the £15,000 debt incurred through the installation of water and electricity supplies to the village. Once the debt was cleared the parish retained the fee, resulting in Betws-y-coed having the lowest rates in the country. This ended after Local Government Re-organisation in 1974.^[2]

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=caernarvonshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted