Criccieth, Gwynedd - multiview Hinde postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Criccieth - multiview postcard
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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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Criccieth (Welsh: Cricieth) is a town and community on Cardigan Bay, in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd in Wales. The town lies 5 miles (8 km) west of Porthmadog, 9 miles (14 km) east of Pwllheli and 17 miles (27 km) south of Caernarfon. It has a population of 1,826.^[1]

The town is a seaside resort, popular with families.^[2] Attractions include the ruins of Criccieth Castle, which have extensive views over the town and surrounding countryside.^[3] Nearby on Ffordd Castell is Cadwalader's Ice Cream Parlour, opened in 1927,^[4] whilst Stryd Fawr has several bistro style restaurants.^[2] In the centre lies Y Maes, part of the original medieval town common.^[5]

The town is noted for its fairs, held on 23 May and 29 June every year, when large numbers of people visit the fairground itself and the market which spreads through many of the streets of the town.^[6]

Famous people associated with the town include the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, who grew up in the nearby village of Llanystumdwy, and poet William George.^[7] Group Captain Leslie Bonnet, RAF officer, writer and originator of the Welsh Harlequin Duck^[8] and his wife Joan Hutt, artist^[9] both lived at Ymwlch just outside Criccieth from 1949 until their deaths in 1985.

Criccieth hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1975^[10] and in 2003 was granted Fairtrade Town status.^[11] It won the Wales in Bloom competition each year from 1999 to 2004.^[12]

The town styles itself The Pearl of Wales on the Shores of Snowdonia.^[13]

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Criccieth is located in Eifionydd on the Cardigan Bay shore of the Llyn Peninsula. The town is south facing and built around the rocky outcrop containing Criccieth Castle, which effectively divides the shoreline in two at this point. The East Shore has a sandy beach with a shallow area for bathing, whilst the Marine Beach, to the west, is quieter and has a number of hotels and guest houses.^[42]

The rhyolitic headland on which the castle is built is strong and not easily eroded. The cliffs to each side, however, are less resistant, being made up of glacial drift, layers of boulders, stones, clay and silt which were laid down during the last ice age. Sea walls were already in existence at the time of the first Ordnance Survey map in 1891, and the west shore sea wall had been extended and groynes built by 1913. Extensive remedial work was completed in 1965, and the defences were again strengthened in 1974 and 1985. In 1995 work was started on improving the defences along The Esplanade, followed in 1997 by further work to replace the crumbling gabions below Lôn Felin.^[43] Submerged forests occur in a number of places off the Cardigan Bay coastline, including Criccieth; these are deposits of peat, soil and tree remains, and appear to be post-glacial coastal lagoons and estuaries, which have been flooded by rising sea levels.^[44]

The town has a temperate maritime climate which is influenced by the Gulf Stream. Frost and snow are rare; the last serious snowfall, of 6 inches (15 cm), was in 1985.^[45] The climate results in a luscious, green countryside and many delicate plant species grow wild; gorse flowers throughout the year.^[46] One plant unusual to Criccieth is lampranthus roseus, known locally as the Oxenbould Daisy and introduced in the late 19th century by a resident of Min-y-Mor.^[47]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=caernarvonshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted