An early  view  of  Braich y Dinas hillfort, formerly on  the summit  of  Penmaenmawr,
 which  appeared  in  The  Sphere  for  November  19th  1910, during  the controversy
concerning  the  hillfort’s  imminent  destruction due to the expansion of quarrying at
the nearby Darbishire and  other stone quarries

Hanes  Lleol Penmaenmawr, Gogledd Cymru
Local History of Penmaenmawr, North Wales


An Ancient Survey of Penmaenmawr said to be by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir - Introduction

An Ancient Survey of Penmaenmawr said to be by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir - Variorum text

An Ancient Survey of Penmaenmawr said to be by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir - Illustrations-1

An Ancient Survey of Penmaenmawr said to be by Sir John Wynn of Gwydir - Illustrations-2

Pownall's 1769 print of Penmaenmawr, showing Lord Bulkeley's road just before the engineer Sylvester started work on his new road

Lewis Morris chart of 1748 showing line of Lord Bulkeley's road

John Ogilby's road map 4th Edition of 1731 showing route over Penmaenmawr

Line of Penmaenmawr road before 1723 from Henry Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata

Boydell's large print  of Lord Bulkeley's road in 1750

Photograph of Penmaenmawr seaward cliff-face just prior to the cutting of the Darbishire Quarries steam tramway at high level circa1890

Possible C19th sketch of the old Tyn y Penmaen Inn on the western (Llanfairfechan) approach to Penmaenmawr

David Cox's view of what is usually said to be Penmaenmawr, rendered as a coloured print by W.Radclyffe. If correctly so described, it should be Sylvester's post-1772 new road
  The earliest known view of the road across the face of Penmaenmawr, by Thomas Dineley from his diary of The Duke of Beaufort's Progress through Wales on his master's way to become the Governor of Ireland in 1684

  Map from Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica 1783 of Post Road across Anglesey and over Penmaenmawr

 
  End-17th century Bulkeley letters discussing the need for a new road round Penmaenmawr