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Denbighshire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Denbighshire A county of north‐east Wales created in 1536 at the Act of Union with England. Its core was Perfeddwlad, east of...
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Clwyd
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...from 1974 to 1996. It was made up of the former counties of Denbighshire and Flintshire , with the Edeyrnion rural district in the...1996 it was divided into three new unitary authorities, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Wrexham, whilst Colwyn on the western...
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Nesfield, William Eden
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...C17-style Lodge at Regent's Park, London (1864—destroyed), followed by his masterpiece, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire (1866–74), and then Bodrhyddan, Flintshire, (1872–4), both in Wales. His importance lies...
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Cheshire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...western England, resembles a hammock slung between the south‐west Pennines (east) and Flint–Denbighshire uplands (west). The Romans had established a legionary fortress at Deva ( Chester ), as a base for advances into Wales...
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Hakewill, Henry
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Henry (1771–1830). English architect. He designed two distinguished Greek Revival buildings: Coed Coch, Denbighshire, Wales (1804), a country-house with a diagonally placed portico (demolished) and stair ; and St Peter's Church...
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Telford, Thomas
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Salop. (1793–4), Pont-y-Cysyllte, near Llangollen, Wales (1795–1805), and Chirk, Denbighshire (1796–1801), are among the finest and most dignified of such structures in the world. Telford de-signed...
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Weedon, Harold William
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...very fine building at Birmingham Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwicks., and the splendid pile at Conway Road, Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Clwyd, Wales. However, having designed the Sutton Coldfield and Colwyn Bay Odeons at astonishing speed, Clavering had...
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Powys
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...Norman control it was divided into a series of marcher lordships which were themselves integrated in 1536 into the counties of Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire. It was not until the Local Government Act of 1972 that the name was revived and given to the new county...
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aqueduct
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...canals, such as Telford 's Pont-y-Cysyllte (1795–1805) over the River Dee, in the Vale of Llangollen, Denbighshire, Clwyd, Wales, consist of cast-iron structures carried on massive piers. Bibliography Skempton et al. (eds...
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Shaw, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...at Hampton Court Palace, and other Anglo-Dutch elements reminiscent of Nesfield 's Queen Anne style at Kinmel Park, Denbighshire some 12 years later), and Goldsmith's College, formerly the Royal Naval School, Lewisham Way, Deptford, London...
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