Museums, archives and heritage in Anglesey

Anglesey – an insular county of N. Wales, separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait, over which a suspension bridge was thrown in 1826, and a tubular railway bridge in 1850. The island is about 20 miles long, 16 broad, and 76 in circumference, and is the only county in Wales that is not … Read more

Museums, archives and heritage in Cardiff

Cardiff, municipal and parliamentary borough, seaport, and county town of Glamorgan, at the mouth of the river Taff and on the estuary of the Severn 29 miles W. of Bristol by water and 170 miles W. of London by rail – parliamentary and municipal borough, population 82,761. In 1801 the population was only 1018; in … Read more