Carnarvonshire

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A form of Caernarfonshire — A maritime traditional county of Wales. bounded to the north by the Irish Sea, to the east by Denbighshire, to the south by Cardigan Bay and Merionethshire, and to the west by Caernarfon Bay and the Menai Strait, which separates it from Anglesey. The county is now mostly in Gwynedd.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Caernarfonshire.

    The Carnarvonshire Railway was incorporated by an Act of July 29, 1862, with powers to construct a standard-gauge line from the Bangor & Carnarvon at Caernarvon [1958 spelling] to Portmadoc, a distance of 27¾ miles, but only the centre portion, from Penygroes to Afonwen, 11¾ miles, was built.

    1958 September 29, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 594
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