Milnrow & Newhey March 2016

Letter
f r o m L l a n d u d n o
After 35 years of living in Milnrow we moved to Llandudno last
December. The motivations were many and varied, but basically
we needed to live somewhere that was flat! As the third most
visited seaside resort in the country most people will have been
to Llandudno, even if just once, and that was the case with myself
before beginning to look for properties here!
Llan is Welsh for church or parish and in this case Llandudno is the modern day
version of Llan Tudno or the church of Saint
Tudno. Tudno lived and died in the 500s and
Tudno’s church was built in the 6th Century
by him on the Great Orme, and a working
church still occupies the same spot today.
This area has been occupied for thousands
of years and the 4,000 year old copper
mine on the Great Orme testifies to the
main activity around here for millennia, but
the town itself was deliberately created as
a holiday resort from the late 1840s by the
Llandudno from the Great Orme: the layout of
Llandudno in a grid pattern is said to have
inspired Lewis Carol to come up with the chess
board effect in Alice in Wonderland
land owners, the Mostyn family, and the
fabric of the town as we know it was
established by the mid-1870s. Its popularity
was aided and abetted by the connection
to the national rail networks and the
establishment of a station at Llandudno in 1858.
The ideas, and layout as a resort, put together in
the early Victorian times survive today and are
shielded from out-and-out development by the
Mostyn family and strict byelaws.
Llandudno lays claim to be
Cheshire Cat: also sits at the the home of Lewis Carol’s
end of our road and is one of
Alice In Wonderland. Just a
several Alice in Wonderland
statues dotted around 100 yards from our house is
Llandudno
the demolished site of the
former holiday home of the
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