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OGWEN (The), a river of Carnarvonshire. It issues from Llyn-Ogwen, a narrow lake nearly a mile long, between a shoulder of Carnedd-Davydd mountain and the Trifaen and Glyder-fach mountains; goes immediately into a wild-narrow gorge, called the Pass of the Benglog; makes there a series of falls aggregately more than 100 feet deep; and runs thence about 9 miles, north-north-westward, to the Menai-strait at Bangor. Ogwen Bank, a seat of the Pennants, takes name from it; and the slate quarries of Penrhyn are near it.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Caernarvonshire Ancient County |
| Place names: | OGWEN | OGWEN THE | THE OGWEN |
| Place: | Ogwen |
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