I was now in a wide valley — enormous hills were on my right. The road was good, and above it, in the side of a steep bank, was a causeway intended for foot passengers. It was overhung with hazel bushes. I walked along it to its termination which was at Llangollen. I found my wife and daughter at the principal inn. They had already taken a house. We dined together at the inn; during the dinner we had music, for a Welsh harper stationed in the passage played upon his instrument "Codiad yr ehedydd." "Of a surety," said I, "I am in Wales!" [Borrow 41]
The Welsh Landscape and Castles
- Llanberis Pass, looking northward
- Dinorwic Quarry, Llyn Padarn, Llanberis
- Dolbadarn Castle, Llanberis
- Beaumaris Castle, Anglesey
Buildings
- Llandudno Pier
- The Hydro Hotel
- Quarrymen's Cottages
- Dinorwic Quarry and the Quarrymen's Lives
- St Cybi's Church, Holyhead
- Cathedral Church of St Deiniol, Bangor
- St Margaret's (the Marble Church), Bodelwyddan, Clwydd
- Holy Trinity, Llandudno
- Llandudno Station
- Working-Men's Conservative Club, Caernarfon
- Castle Street, Conwy
- Plâs Mawr
- Former town hall, Llangollen.
- River Dee and Railway Station, Llangollen
Piers, Bridges and Railways
- Llandudno Pier
- Garth Point Pier, Bangor
- Royal Pier, Aberystwyth
- Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge or Tubular Bridge across the Menai Straits
- Benjamin Piercy's Barmouth Bridge across the River Mawddach
- The Conwy Tubular Bridge (Victorian illustration)
- The Conwy Tubular Bridge (modern photograph and account)
- Llangollen Railway, N. Wales (I): Llangollen Station
- Llangollen Railway, N. Wales (II): Llangollen to Corwen
Sculpture
David Cox’s drawings and watercolors of North Wales
- Llanrwst
- Fishing Village
- [Watermill at] Trefriw, near Llanrwst
- Near Dinas Mowddwy, Merionethshire
- Scene in North Wales
- View in North Wales [Bridge over a stream]
- Mountain and Stream, North Wales
- Scene in North Wales
- Carnarvon Castle
- A Welsh Funeral, Betws-y-Coed
Paintings by other artists
- The Valley of Llangollen, by Thomas Creswick
- The Old Mill at Bettws-y-Coed, by Thomas Creswick
- On the Llugwy near Bettwys-y-Coed, Summer, by Benjamin Williams Leader
- The Old Bridge, Bettws-y-Coed, 1876, by Benjamin Williams Leader
- A Welsh Hillside, 1875, by Benjamin Williams Leader
- Moel Siabod - in the Valley of the Lledr, by Benjamin Williams Leader
- On the Carnarvonshire Coast, by Benjamin Williams Leader
- Llugwy in Flood, by Benjamin Williams Leader
- Rocky Landscape, by Benjamin Williams Leader
- After Rain, by Henry Moore [view of Snowdon across the Traeth Mawr]
- Conway Valley
- The Rainbow
- A Welsh Funeral (To the Cold Earth)
In literature
- "This Queer Corner of the World": Tourism, Colonialism, and Le Fanu’s Writing of Wales
- "Llangollen" (an illustrated excerpt from George Borrow's Wild Wales)
Related Material
- Protestant Nonconformity in Victorian Wales
- Work in the Slate Quarries of North Wales
- South and Mid-Wales
- Cardiff and Environs
Sources
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Borrow, George. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery. 1862. London and Glasgow: Collins, 1955.
Bradley, A. C. Highways and byways in North Wales. With illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. London: Macmillan, 1898. Internet Archive. Web. 12 April 2014.
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Jones, Gareth Elwyn. Modern Wales: A Concise History. 2d ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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