By 1799, the canal had extended across the Kidwelly-Pembrey road, near to Saltrock Farm, and by the end of 1801 it had reached the sea at Pill Towyn, a creek running in from the south bank of the Gwendraeth Fawr river.
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The construction of stone piers to buttress the bank and the use of boats to dump stones into the gap helped, but the work was hampered by the Glaslyn, which should have been diverted to a new course to reach the sluice gates at Ynys Towyn.
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By this time, the first signals of the emergence of the Labour Party were seen in the constituency, but a Labour candidate made little impact at the by-election which saw the election of the prominent nonvonformist minister, Josiah Towyn Jones, as the new MP.
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A combination of gale-force winds, a high tide and rough seas caused Towyn's flood defences to be breached at about 11.00am on 26 February 1990 . of land was flooded, affecting 2, 800 properties and causing areas of the resort to be evacuated.
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He had tried to develop a port at Ynys Cyngar, some from his embankment, now known as The Cob, but the effects of diverting the Glaslyn through its exit sluice were that it scoured out a deep channel by Ynys Towyn, the island at the western end of the Cob.
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Although " Gwbert " is not recorded, by name, as a settlement in medieval documentation, Towyn Farm on the northern edge of the adjoining dunes was recorded as a late medieval gentry house / settlement, owned by Gwilym ap Einon, constable of Cardigan Castle, in 1326.
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St Mary's Church, in Towyn, was built in 1873 and designed by George Edmund Street, who was also the architect for the Royal Courts of Justice in Grade II * listed, as is the nearby Towyn and Kinmel Bay Youth Club, built two years earlier and also designed by Street.
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St Mary's Church, in Towyn, was built in 1873 and designed by George Edmund Street, who was also the architect for the Royal Courts of Justice in Grade II * listed, as is the nearby Towyn and Kinmel Bay Youth Club, built two years earlier and also designed by Street.
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Construction of the causeway, known locally as The Cob, linking Penrhyn Isa on the Merioneth shore with the small rocky island called Ynys Towyn ( where Britannia Terrace now stands in Porthmadog ) near the Caernarfonshire shore, started in 1807 and was completed in 1811 during which time large quantities of stone was quarried and extracted from both ends.
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Clwyd West : Abergele Pensarn, Betws yn Rhos, Colwyn, Efenechtyd, Eirias, Gele, Glyn, Kinmel Bay, Llanarmon-yn-Ial / Llandegla, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd / Llangynhafal, Llanddulas, Llandrillo yn Rhos, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd / Gwyddelwern, Llangernyw, Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, Llansannan, Llysfaen, Mochdre, Pentre Mawr, Rhiw, Ruthin, Towyn, Uwchaled
