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Name of Place: Gloddaeth; County: Carnarvon; Number of Miles from: Conway – 3; Llanrwst – 13; Llan. in Rhos – 3; Dist. Lond. -236; Population: Not given.

Gloddaeth. The inhabitants of this place nearly all find occupation in the Llandudno mines. In the neighbourhood of Gloddaeth, on a tract of land on the eastern side of the river Conway, stood the ruins of the celebrated Diganwy, or Cannoc; which, says a Welsh historian, was destroyed by lightening more than a thousand years ago. Many brass belts, and some weapons have been discovered here, and some fragments of the foundation walls are still distinguishable. Here is an ancient seat of the Mostyn family, and a valuable library of Welsh MSS. and printed books, collected by Sir Roger Mostyn.

Source: England and Wales Delineated by Thomas Dugdale assisted by William Burnett; published by Tallis & Co., Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, 1835.