HI STORY 



OF 



ABERCONWY. 



The obvious advantages derived by fixing their 

 residence on the banks of a river would naturally 

 occur to the early inhabitants of this country, and 

 the importance of the Conwy, in this respect, has 

 been duly appreciated from the most remote times, 

 of which we have any records. Its name Conwy, 

 or more properly Cynwy, is derived from Cyn 

 chief, and wy water, and it is allowed to be one 

 of the finest of its length in Europe. The earliest 

 author who makes mention of any place in this 

 neighbourhood is Tacitus, whose Cangorum Ci- 

 vitas is fixed by the learned antiquary Humfrey 

 Llwyd at Dyganwy. Every British nation had 

 its own Cano-i, whose office was to attend to the 

 herds, and they resided in different pastures at 

 various periods of the year. Benren is recorded 



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