Llandudno (, ) is a seaside resort, town and

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, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the

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. In the 2011 UK census, the community – which includes

Gogarth The Great Orme ( cy, Y Gogarth) is a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, north-west of the town of Llandudno. Referred to as ''Cyngreawdr Fynydd'' by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, its English name derives from the Old ...

Penrhyn Bay Penrhyn Bay ( cy, Bae Penrhyn "headland bay") is a small town on the northern coast of Wales, in Conwy county borough, within the parish or community of Llandudno, and part of the ''ecclesiastical'' parish of Llanrhos. It is a prosperous village, ...

, Craigside,

Glanwydden Glanwydden is a small village located between Llandudno and Colwyn Bay in Conwy county borough, north Wales. Amenities & History The village has one pub and around 30 houses. It was the centre of the limestone quarry trade in the 17th century ...

, Penrhynside, and

Bryn Pydew Bryn Pydew is a small settlement to the east of Llandudno Junction in North Wales. The limestone hill of Bryn Pydew reaches 128 metres (420 feet) above sea level. The population is around 451 people. Bodysgallen Hall is nearby. Bryn Pydew is hom ...

– had a population of 20,701. The town's name means "Church of

Saint Tudno Saint Tudno () is the patron saint of Llandudno (whose name is derived from his), and founder of the original parish church, located on the Great Orme peninsula. Origins Saint Tudno is said to have been one of the seven sons of King Seithenyn, ...

". Llandudno is the largest seaside resort in Wales, and as early as 1861 was being called 'the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places' (a phrase later also used in connection with

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and

Aberystwyth Aberystwyth () is a university and seaside town as well as a community in Ceredigion, Wales. Located in the historic county of Cardiganshire, means "the mouth of the Ystwyth". Aberystwyth University has been a major educational location in ...

; the word 'resort' came a little later).

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a part of

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, Llandudno was formerly in the

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within

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History

The town of Llandudno developed from

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and

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settlements over many hundreds of years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the

Great Orme The Great Orme ( cy, Y Gogarth) is a limestone headland on the north coast of Wales, north-west of the town of Llandudno. Referred to as ''Cyngreawdr Fynydd'' by the 12th-century poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr, its English name derives from the Old N ...

and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula. The origins in recorded history are with the Manor of Gogarth conveyed by

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to Annan,

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in 1284. The manor comprised three townships, ''Y Gogarth'' in the south-west, ''Y Cyngreawdr'' in the north (with the parish church of St Tudno) and ''Yr Wyddfid'' in the south-east. Modern Llandudno takes its name from the ancient parish of Saint Tudno but also encompasses several neighbouring townships and districts including

Craig-y-Don Craig-y-Don is a suburb of Llandudno, a coastal seaside resort in Conwy county borough, north Wales. It is also an electoral ward to Conwy County Borough Council and Llandudno Town Council. It is also part of the parish of Llanrhos. History L ...

Llanrhos Llanrhos (English: 'Church on the moor') is a village in the community of Conwy, in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The village lies between the towns of Conwy and Llandudno. Llanrhos was a civil parish from 1894 until 1974. The area was formerly p ...

and Penrhyn Bay. Also nearby is the small town and marina of

Deganwy Deganwy (Middle Welsh ''Degannwy'', Brythonic *''Decantouion'') is a town and electoral ward in Conwy County Borough in Wales with a population of 3,936 (2011). It lies in the Creuddyn Peninsula alongside Llandudno (to the north) and Rhos-on-Se ...

and these last four are in the traditional parish of Llanrhos. The ancient geographical boundaries of the Llandudno area are complex: although they are on the eastern side of the

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(the natural boundary between north-west and north-east Wales), the ancient parishes of Llandudno, Llanrhos and

Llangystennin Llangystennin (sometimes spelt Llangwstennin) is a rural parish to the south-east of Llandudno and Llanrhos in Conwy County Borough, north Wales. Llangystennin includes Llangwstennin Hall, the villages of Mochdre, Pabo and Bryn Pydew and the ...

(which includes

Llandudno Junction Llandudno Junction ( cy, Cyffordd Llandudno), once known as Tremarl, is a village in the county borough of Conwy, Wales. It is part of the ancient parish of Llangystennin, and it is located south of Llandudno. It adjoins Deganwy and is to the ...

) were in the medieval

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of Creuddyn in the

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, and afterwards part of Caernarfonshire. Today, Deganwy and Llandudno Junction are part of the town community of Conwy even though they are across the river and only linked to Conwy by a causeway and bridge.

Great Orme

Mostly owned by Mostyn Estates, the Great Orme is home to several large herds of wild Kashmiri goats originally descended from a pair given by

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to Lord Mostyn. The summit of the Great Orme stands at 679 feet (207 m). The Summit Hotel, now a tourist attraction, was once the home of world middleweight champion boxer

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. The limestone headland is a haven for flora and fauna, with some rare species such as peregrine falcons and a species of wild cotoneaster ('' cambricus'') which can only be found on the Great Orme. The sheer limestone cliffs provide ideal nesting conditions for a wide variety of sea birds, including cormorants, shags, guillemots, razorbills, puffins, kittiwakes, fulmars and numerous gulls. There are several attractions including the

Great Orme Tramway The Great Orme Tramway ( cy, Tramffordd y Gogarth) is a cable-hauled gauge tramway in Llandudno in north Wales. Open seasonally from late March to late October, it takes over 200,000 passengers each year from Llandudno Victoria Station to just b ...

and the

Llandudno Cable Car The Llandudno Cable Car is an attraction in the seaside resort of Llandudno in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The Gondola lift, cable car runs along the Great Orme spanning a distance of exactly. The cable car was opened in summer 1969, and ha ...

that takes tourists to the summit. The Great Orme also has the longest toboggan run in Britain at 750m long.

Development

View from the Lighthouse hotel, Llandudno

By 1847 the town had grown to a thousand people, served by the new church of St George, built in 1840. The great majority of the men worked in the copper mines, with others employed in fishing and subsistence agriculture. In 1848, Owen Williams, an architect and surveyor from

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, presented Lord Mostyn with plans to develop the marshlands behind Llandudno Bay as a holiday resort. These were enthusiastically pursued by Lord Mostyn. The influence of the Mostyn Estate and its agents over the years was paramount in the development of Llandudno, especially after the appointment of George Felton as surveyor and architect in 1857. Between 1857 and 1877 much of central Llandudno was developed under Felton's supervision. Felton also undertook architectural design work, including the design and execution of Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street.

Transport

Great Orme cable car, Llandudno - geograph

The town is just off the North Wales Coast railway line which was opened as the

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in 1848. It became part of the

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in 1859, and part of the

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in 1923. Llandudno was specifically built as a mid-

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holiday destination and is served by a branch railway line opened in 1858 from

with stations at

and

Llandudno Llandudno (, ) is a seaside resort, town and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located on the Creuddyn peninsula, which protrudes into the Irish Sea. In the 2011 UK census, the community – which includes Gogarth, Penrhyn Bay, Craigsi ...

. The town is also served by Arriva Buses Wales, with services to Rhyl, Bangor, Caernarfon and The Great Orme Summit. Also there is Llew Jones with services to Betws-y-coed and Llanrwst.

Trams

Present

to the summit of the Great Orme

Former

Land Train in Gloddaeth Avenue - geograph

The Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway operated an electric tramway service between Llandudno and Rhos-on-Sea from 1907, this being extended to Colwyn Bay in 1908. The service closed in 1956. In Llandudno the original Tramway went up the middle of Gloddaeth Street and down the North Shore, through Penrhyn Bay and across to Colwyn Bay.

Attractions

Llandudno Bay and the North Shore

For most of the length of Llandudno's ''North Shore'' there is a wide curving Victorian promenade. The road, collectively known as The Parade, has a different name for each block and it is on these parades and crescents that many of Llandudno's hotels are built. The ''North Wales Theatre, Arena and Conference Centre'', built in 1994, and extended in 2006 and renamed "Venue Cymru" is located near the centre of the bay.

Llandudno Pier

The Llandudno Pier is on the ''North Shore''. Built in 1877, it is a Grade II listed building. The pier was extended in 1884 in a landward direction along the side of what was the Baths Hotel (where the Grand Hotel (Llandudno), Grand Hotel now stands).

Happy Valley

The Happy Valley, a former quarry, was the gift of Lord Mostyn to the town in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Victoria of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria in 1887. The area was landscaped and developed as gardens, two miniature golf courses, a putting green, a popular open-air theatre and extensive lawns. The ceremonies connected with the Welsh National Eisteddfod were held there in 1896 and again in 1963.

Marine Drive

The first route round the perimeter of the Great Orme was a footpath constructed in 1858 by Reginald Cust, a trustee of the Mostyn Estate. In 1872 the Great Ormes Head Marine Drive Co. Ltd. was formed to turn the path into a carriage road. Following bankruptcy, a second company completed the road in 1878. The contractors for the scheme were Messrs Hughes, Morris, Davies, a consortium led by Richard Hughes of Madoc Street, Llandudno. The road was bought by Llandudno Urban District Council in 1897. The one-way drive starts at the foot of the Happy Valley. After about a side road leads to St. Tudno's Church, the Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mine and the summit of the Great Orme. Continuing on the Marine Drive the Great Orme Lighthouse (now a small hotel) is passed, and, shortly afterwards on the right, the Rest and Be Thankful Cafe and information centre. Below the Marine Drive at its western end is the site of the wartime Coast Artillery School (1940–1945), now a scheduled ancient monument.

West Shore

The West Shore is a quiet beach on the estuary of the

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. It was here at Pen Morfa that Alice Liddell (of ''Alice in Wonderland'' fame) spent the long summer holidays of her childhood.

Mostyn Street

Running behind the promenade is Mostyn Street leading to Mostyn Broadway and then Mostyn Avenue. These are the main shopping streets of Llandudno and Craig-y-Don. Mostyn Street accommodates the high street shops, the major high street banks and building societies, two churches, amusement arcades and the town's public library. The last is the starting point for the Llandudno Town Trail.

Victorian Extravaganza

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Llandudno Lifeboat

Until 2017, Llandudno was unique within the United Kingdom in that its lifeboat station was located inland, allowing it to launch with equal facility from either the West Shore or the North Shore as needed. In 2017, a new lifeboat station was completed, and new, high-speed, offshore and inshore lifeboats, and a modern launching system, were acquired. This station is close to the paddling pool on North Shore. Llandudno's active volunteer crews are called out more than ever with the rapidly increasing numbers of small pleasure craft sailing in coastal waters. The Llandudno Lifeboat is normally on display on the promenade every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from May until October.

Places of worship

The ancient parish church dedicated to

stands in a hollow near the northern point of the Great Orme and two miles (3 km) from the present town. It was established as an Oratory (worship), oratory by Tudno, a 6th-century monk, but the present church dates from the 12th century and it is still used on summer Sunday mornings. It was the Anglican parish church of Llandudno until that status was transferred first to St George's (now closed) and later to Holy Trinity Church in Mostyn Street. Eglwys y Drindod Sanctaidd - Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales, Cymru 04.JPG Eglwys y Drindod Sanctaidd - Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales, Cymru 09.JPG Eglwys y Drindod Sanctaidd - Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales, Cymru 13.JPG Eglwys y Drindod Sanctaidd - Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales, Cymru 25.jpg Eglwys y Drindod Sanctaidd - Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales, Cymru 32.JPG Eglwys y Drindod Sanctaidd - Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno, North Wales, Cymru 33.JPG The principal Christian Churches of Llandudno are members of Cytûn (churches together) and include the Church in Wales (Holy Trinity and also Saint Paul's at Craig-y-Don), the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Saint John's Methodist Church, Gloddaeth United Church (Presbyterian), Assemblies of God (Pentecostal), Llandudno Baptist Church, St. David's Methodist Church at Craig-y-Don, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Saint Mary and Saint Abasikhiron Coptic Orthodox Church, Saint Mary and Saint Abasikhiron, and Eglwys Unedig Gymraeg Llandudno (the United Welsh Church of Llandudno). There is also a Christadelphian meeting hall in the town. A member of the local Methodist community is Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, Roger Roberts, now Lord Roberts of Llandudno, Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat Spokesman for International Development in the House of Lords. Llandudno is home to a Jewish centre in Church Walks, which serves the local Jewish population – one of few in North Wales. There is also a Buddhist centre, Kalpa Bhadra, on Mostyn Avenue in Craig-y-Don.

Sports

The town is host to Llandudno F.C. who currently compete in the Cymru North, the second tier of Welsh football, but the team have previously competed in the top level Cymru Premier. The club plays home matches at Maesdu Park and competed in the Europa League in 2016. The town is also host to Llandudno Albion F.C., Llandudno Albion, who currently play in the third tier of Welsh football, and Llandudno Amateurs (2017) F.C., Llandudno Amateurs, who play in the fourth tier. Football in Llandudno dates back to 1878 when a club known as Gloddaeth Rovers for around a decade. Gloddaeth Rovers were then replaced by Llandudno Swifts F.C., Llandudno Swifts as the towns main club. Following the demise of Swifts in 1901, a new club, Llandudno Amateurs F.C., Llandudno Amateurs were formed. A football club is mentioned in Llandudno as far back as 1865. Llandudno Rugby Club also plays in the town and was established in 1952. There are also local pool, snooker and domino tournaments.

Demography

The 2011 census counted 20,701 usual residents of which 50.8% were born in Wales and 40.7% in England.

Governance

Electoral wards in the town of Llandudno, North Wales

There are two tiers of local government covering Llandudno, at

(town) level and Principal areas of Wales, principal area (county borough) level: Llandudno Town Council and Conwy County Borough Council. Llandudno is now divided into five electoral wards:

, Gogarth, Mostyn (Llandudno electoral ward), Mostyn, Penrhyn (electoral ward), Penrhyn and Tudno (electoral ward), Tudno. The wards elect county councillors to Conwy County Borough Council and four community councillors each to Llandudno Town Council.

Administrative history

In 1854 Llandudno was made an Improvement commissioners, Improvement Commissioners District. The district covered part of the ancient parish of Llandudno and part of the neighbouring parish of Llanrhos, Eglwysrhos. In 1894 the improvement commissioners were replaced by Llandudno Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), Urban District Council. This was a lower-tier council, with

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County Council providing county-level services. The urban district council built Llandudno Town Hall to serve as its headquarters in 1902. In 1974 the urban district was abolished, with the area becoming a community within the District of Aberconwy, Aberconwy district in the new county of

. Further local government reform in 1996 saw the area become part of the principal areas of Wales, principal area of Conwy County Borough. Llandudno falls under the UK parliamentary constituency of Aberconwy, whose MP is the Conservative Robin Millar, and the Senedd constituency of Aberconwy, whose MS is the Conservative Janet Finch-Saunders. It falls under the North Wales electoral region.

Links with Wormhout and Mametz

Llandudno is Town twinning, twinned with the Nord (département), Flemish town of Wormhout from Dunkirk. It was there that many members of the Llandudno-based 69th Territorial Army (United Kingdom), Territorial Regiment were ambushed and taken prisoner. Later, at nearby Esquelbecq on 28 May 1940, the prisoners were shot. The 1st (North Wales) Brigade was headquartered in Llandudno in December 1914 and included a battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, which had been raised and trained in Llandudno. During the 1914–18 war this Brigade, a major part of the 38th Welsh Division, took part in the Battle of the Somme and the Brigade was ordered to take Mametz Wood. Two days of fighting brought about the total destruction of Mametz, Somme, Mametz village by shelling. After the war, the people of Llandudno (including returning survivors from the 38th Welsh Division) contributed generously to the fund for the reconstruction of the village of Mametz.

Cultural connections

Llandudno hosted the Welsh National Eisteddfod in 1864, 1896 and 1963, and in 2008 welcomed the Urdd National Eisteddfod to Gloddaeth Isaf Farm,

. The town also hosted the Liverpool Olympic Festival in 1865 and 1866. Matthew Arnold gives a vivid and lengthy description of 1860s Llandudno – and of the ancient tales of Taliesin and Maelgwn Gwynedd that are associated with the local landscape – in the first sections of the preface to ''On the Study of Celtic Literature'' (1867). It is also used as a location for dramatic scenes in the stage play and film ''Hindle Wakes (play), Hindle Wakes'' by Stanley Houghton, and the 1911 novel, ''The Card'', by Arnold Bennett, and its subsequent The Card (1952 film), film version. Elisabeth of Wied, the Queen Consort of Romania and also known as writer Carmen Sylva, stayed in Llandudno for five weeks in 1890. On leaving, she described Wales as "a beautiful haven of peace". Translated into Welsh as "''hardd'', ''hafan'', ''hedd''", it became the town's official motto. Other famous people with links to Llandudno include the Victorian statesman John Bright and multi-capped Welsh international footballers Neville Southall, Neil Eardley , Chris Maxwell (footballer), Chris Maxwell and Joey Jones. Australian ex-Prime Minister Billy Hughes attended school in Llandudno. Gordon Borrie, Baron Borrie, Gordon Borrie QC (Baron Borrie), Director General of the Office of Fair Trading from 1976 to 1992, was educated at the town's John Bright Grammar School when he lived there as a wartime evacuee. The international art gallery ''Oriel Mostyn'' is in Vaughan Street next to the post office. It was built in 1901 to house the art collection of Lady Augusta Mostyn. It was requisitioned in 1914 for use as an army drill hall and later became a warehouse, before being returned to use as an art gallery in 1979. Following a major revamp the gallery was renamed simply 'Mostyn' in 2010. Llandudno has its own mini arts festival LL''AWN' (Llandudno Arts Weekend) which has been running for the past three years (''LL''AWN''01'' −2013, ''LL''AWN''02 – 2014'', ''LL''AWN''03 – 2015''). ''LLAWN'' is a mini festival that rediscovers and celebrates Llandudno’s past in rather a unique way; via art, architecture, artefact, sound, performance, and participation. The festival takes place over three days of the weekend in late September, originally conceived as a way to promote what those in the hospitality sector refer to as the ‘shoulder season’, which means a lull in the tourist calendar. The festival is supported by Arts Council Wales, Mostyn Estates, Conwy County Borough Council, MOSTYN and Llandudno Town Council. In January 1984 ''Brookside (television programme), Brookside'' character Petra Taylor (Alexandra Pigg) committed suicide in Llandudno. In 1997, the English cookery programme "Two Fat Ladies" with Jennifer Patterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright shot an episode in Llandudno. The fictional town of Spikemuth in the Pokémon video games Pokémon Sword and Shield is modelled after Llandudno.

Notable people

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* Augusta Mostyn (1830–1912) philanthropist and photographer, lived in Gloddaeth Hall * Martha Hughes Cannon (1857–1932) a Utah State Senator, physician, women's rights advocate and suffragist * Dion Fortune (1890–1946) occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. * Margaret Lacey (1911–1988) character actress and ballet teacher. * Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010) naturalised American Realism (arts), realist painter, worked in New York City * Peter Brinson (1920–1995) writer and lecturer on dance. * Jeremy Brooks (1926–1994) novelist, poet and dramatist, evacuated to Llandudno. * Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno (born 1935) politician & Methodist minister. * Ben Johnson (artist), Ben Johnson (born 1946) painter of detailed cityscapes * Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles, rock band formed in 2015 around Llandudno.

Sport

* Joey Jones (born 1955) football full-back with 594 club caos and 72 for Wales national football team, Wales * Neville Southall (born 1958) footballer with 710 club caps and 92 for Wales national football team, Wales * Neal Eardley (born 1988) footballer with over 400 club caps and 16 for Wales national football team, Wales

Freedom of the Town

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City, Freedom of the Town of Llandudno.

Individuals

* Neville Southall : September 1993. * Councillor Philip Evans JP: January 2002 * Terence Davies: 16 April 2018.

Military Units

* RAF Valley: September 1995. * Llandudno Lifeboat Station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, RNLI: January 2002. * 203 (Welsh) Field Hospital Army Reserve (United Kingdom), (Volunteers) Royal Army Medical Corps, RAMC: 19 September 2009.

References

Bibliography

* Ivor Wynne Jones. ''Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts'' Landmark, Ashbourne Derbyshire 2002 * Philip C. Evans. "Llandudno Coast Artillery School" Llandudno Town Council 2011

External links

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