Llyn Ogwen, Carnarvonshire
Historical Description
Llyn Ogwen, a lake in Carnarvonshire, near the head of the river Ogwen, between Carnedd Davydd and Glyder Fawr, 5 miles S by E of Bethesda. It is nearly a mile long, and it abounds with fine trout. The Ogwen river, immediately on leaving it, traverses a wild gorge called Benglog Pass, and makes a series of falls of aggregately more than 100 feet
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Carnarvonshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Llyn Ogwen are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: