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Conwy
Conwy Conwy, Conwy county borough, northwestern Wales. Conwy Castle is in the centre-right background.

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Conwy, town, Conwy county borough, historic county of Caernarvonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), northwestern Wales. The town lies on the west bank of the River Conwy’s estuary, near the river’s mouth on Conwy Bay of the Irish Sea. It is the administrative centre of the county borough. Conwy was founded by the English king Edward I in 1283 as one of a chain of fortified towns in the then newly invaded North Wales. A Cistercian monastery already occupied the site, but Edward removed the monastery upstream to Maenan, leaving its church as the borough’s parish church. Edward built a castle, a town, ...(100 of 430 words)

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