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GARDENS OLD AMD NFW. 



THB EAST GARDEN. 



striking off the Saxon yoke. The chapel also contains, hung 

 upon the wall, the curious spurs which are said to have 

 belonced to the notorious David ap Jenkin, the Robin Hood 

 of the district, the site of whose cave of refuge, known as 

 Ogof Shenkin, is pointed out on the top of the Falcon Rock. 

 To Inigo Jones, who is believed to have been a native of 

 this part of the country, is attributed the design of the rather 



steep and inconvenient bridge which crosses the Conway at 

 Llanrwst. 



For the name of Gwydyr we are invited to go back to the 

 days of Llywarch H&n, whose great battle, fought here about 

 the year 610, is said to have conferred upon the place the n:ime 

 of " Gwaed-dir," or " The Bloody Land." The seventeenth 

 century work of Sir John Wynne's house is very quaint and 



THE lEKkACE STI-I'S. 



