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English: Porthmadog - Traeth Mawr Traeth Mawr (Welsh for "Big Sands") is a polder near Porthmadog in Gwynedd. It was formerly the tidal estuary of the Afon Glaslyn, and many travellers sank in its quicksands trying to cross it. Much of it is between high mountains. Pont Aberglaslyn is at its upper end. Some time after 1789, William Madocks reclaimed an area of sand and built Tremadog on it. Madocks obtained an Act of Parliament permitting him to complete the reclamation. Between 1808 and 1811 he constructed an embankment called "The Cob" from the island of Ynys Towyn, now part of Porthmadog, near the Caernarfonshire shore to Boston Lodge on the Meirionnydd shore in order to cut off the estuary from the sea; this gained 1,500 acres (607 ha). |
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| Author | Ken Bagnall |
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