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From: <MarkHughesuk(a)aol.com>
To: <WLS-GWYNEDD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 5:43 PM
Subject: [GWYNEDD] Re: Morfa
Certainly the houses were known as Morfa and they were adjacent to
the
beach
in Llandudno, they were the houses built over night under an ancient
welsh
law, they disappeared with the enclosure act of i think 1847.
Mark HUGHES.
That's right. The reason for the name is that the flat land where the modern
town now stands was known as "Morfa Rhianedd" (The marsh of the maidens"),
a
name thought to go back at least as far as the sixth century.
The 1843 act gave all the common to Edward Mostyn with "right of common
therein respectively extinguished" on the grounds "that it would be of GREAT
ADVANTAGE to the persons ...........interested in the said fields, common
meadows, common pastures and other common lands". Too right it was; that's
why the houses on the Morfa disappeared and why a few of the older
inhabitants still hold the Mostyn name in high opprobrium and regard
"Morfa" as a perpetual blight on the name of a once honourable family.
Ken