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May 25, 2024

Feel the width in Bala

The breadth of Bala High Street is unusual for a rural Welsh town, and is a legacy of the town's creation for medieval English settlers. Bala's charter was issued in 1311 and renewed in 1324 - 700 years ago. The town houses of local gentry ...

fronted onto the straight and broad High Street, which continues westwards as Pensarn Road. For more about the history of these streets, use your smartphone to scan the HistoryPoints QR codes in front of Capel Clay, or click here

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Towyn floods illustrated

Oct 9, 2024

Hundreds of people have read our information about the 1990 tidal flood at Towyn since we placed QR codes on the sea wall near the funfair in 2012. Now we've updated our web page about the sea defences with photos of the floodwater ...

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Porthgain's steam railway

Oct 2, 2024

Today Porthgain is a rural Pembrokeshire idyll, so walkers on the coast path may be surprised when they scan new HistoryPoints QR codes which reveal the extent of the steam railway that once served a granite quarry. Before the first steam ...

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Llanengan's isolated chimney

Sep 24, 2024

The tall chimney which stands in isolation on a hill above Llanengan, near Abersoch, may puzzle some visitors, but now you can scan HistoryPoints QR codes nearby to discover that it was built for a Victorian lead mine which had a steam-powered ...

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