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The Menai Straits 2000 years of history

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Davies, H R 1942. The Conway and Menai Ferries, Cardiff

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Documents consulted

Anglesey Record Office

WM 1078/1-7 Ledger and account books, William Roberts and Co. Menai Bridge

Anglesey RO WDY/6 Letter to HR Davies concerning date of timber wharf

Anglesey RO WDY/11 HR Davies: notes for St David's Day speech, 1913

University Wales Bangor Archives:

Penrhyn FB 1800 Penrhyn letter books (correspondence with customers suppliers and shippers)

Bangor Ms 3531 Davies and Co. Sailings Book (details of ships, dates, destinations)

Bangor Ms 4905 Cadwaladr Davies Jnl, miscellaneous items (includes Act for Inclosing Lands in the Parishes of Llandisilio and Llaneilian in the County of Anglesea (17 June 1814)

Baron Hill MSs 650, Osmond’s Aire; 605, Weir of Beaumaris, below the Green

Baron Hill MSs 4959-60, Estate Surveys made in 1776 by J Foulkes

Bangor MS 24530 (George Hotel); 3555, 3552 (HR Davies’ archive, Beaumaris foreshore and land in Llandegfan and Llandysilio)

Bangor MS F.34081 OS 2 inch scale manuscript map c.1820

Lligwy MSs: 1410-1412 Survey of land in Llanidan and Porthamel

Mostyn MS 7290 (Garth causeway)

Plas Newydd Estate map, 1859 and rentals and rent receipt books for the years 1815, 1818, 1820, 1826, 1830, 1839, 1845, 1855, 1865, 1870 (contained in UWB Plas Newydd Papers, particularly PN5 and PN Add. Mss.).

UWB Carter Vincent papers (leases relating to land in Cerrig y Borth)

Melville Richards Archive (Bodffyddion; Baron Hill MS. 868, 869, 1257; Plas Coch Ms. 1582, 181)

National Archives

Schedule of items searched in papers relating to encroachment on Crown Land in Porthaethwy c. 1847-1900. PRO CRES Office of Woods (CRES 37/1682 Correspondence concerning Prince's Pier 1896-1898; CRES 49 Menai Shore encroachment 1861-1905

PRO SC6/1154/2

PRO SC 1153/5; 1153/6 (fisheries in Beaumaris between Lime Kiln, Ferrymanwarth and Llanfaes Friary

National Census Data 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891

Trade Directories

Slater's 1850, 1853, 1858, 1868, 1883 and 1895

Worral's 1873

Porter's 1886

Sutton's 1889-90

Newspapers

Caernarvon Herald and North Wales Advertiser 1832-1874

Maps and charts (see also refs above for location)

Ogilby, J, 1675. Britannia (London to Holyhead route)

Collins,G, 1693 Great Britain’s Coasting Pilot.

Morris, Lewis. 1730s, Manuscript Surveys of Conwy Bay and the Menai Straits (Anglesey Record Office)

Morris, Lewis. 1748, Plan of Harbours, Bays and Roads in St George’s Channel

Telford, T. 1811, Mail Road from Shrewsbury to Holyhead, Report to House of Commons.

Evans, J 1795. Map of the counties of North Wales

Rennie, J. 1810. Plan of Part of the Straits of Menai...the two different Situations for the Proposed Bridges and Roads leading thereto.

Llanidan and Porthamel, estate surveys 1770s (University Bangor archives)

Enclosure Award Maps, Newborough, Llangeinwen and Porthaethwy (1815) (Anglesey Record Office W/Maps/5)

Llandysilio Tithe Map and Schedule 1843

Provis, W.A. 1828, Menai Straits at Porthaethwy (Surveyed between 1818 and 1826, see ref above)

OS 2 inch scale manuscript map c.1820

Robinson, C.G. 1835, Wales, Beaumaris Bay and the north eastern entrances to the Strait of Menai

Tithe maps and schedules: Newborough, Llanidan, Porthaethwy, Bangor parishes (1840s)

OS 1 inch scale map c.1841

Beechy 1850, Survey of navigational impediments in the Swellies in 1847 (Admiralty, 1850)

Davies, HJ, and Haslam, J 1853. Chart of part of the Menai Straits called the Swellies. Bangor MS misc/6/106