• The Penmachno Document was a letters patent drawn up at Penmachno in Gwynedd and signed on 19 December 1294 by Madog ap Llywelyn at the height of his...
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    Penmachno is a village in the isolated upland Machno valley, 4 miles (6 km) south of Betws-y-Coed in the county of Conwy, North Wales. The B4406 road...
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    parish of Penmachno. It covers the Penmachno Valley, through which runs the Afon Machno, and includes the villages of Penmachno and Cwm Penmachno. To the...
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    Prince of Wales (an example of which can be seen in the so-called Penmachno Document). The uprising had been planned for months and attacks occurred on...
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  • two of three men who witnessed the Madog's charter, known as the Penmachno Document, in 1294 which granted lands in Ardudwy and Llansannan to Bleddyn...
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    by Madog ap Llywelyn – who styled himself Prince of Wales in the Penmachno Document – in 1294–1295 and by Llywelyn Bren, Lord of Senghenydd, in 1316–1318...
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  • Denbigh.* 19 December – Madog issues the so-called Penmachno Document, the only surviving document drawn up by him in which he refers to himself as prince...
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  • "grey slope") between Penmachno and Ysbyty Ifan in Gwynedd. The precise spelling of the name "Rhiw Llwyd" varies in historic documents, ranging from "Friw"...
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    Llnrhychwyn and Crafnant Quarries, but from as far away as Cwm Penmachno, where Penmachno, Rhiwbach and Blaen y Cwm quarries were major suppliers. However...
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    the wearing of these breeches. In the Welsh published book 'History of Penmachno' it stated that in 1807 trousers began to replace the use of breeches...
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    throughout England and Wales, including the undated "Carausius Stone" found in Penmachno, though he explicitly stated it was unlikely that the two to refer to...
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    Llyn Conwy, Gwynedd A5 south east of Betws-y-Coed, Gwynedd by way of Penmachno B4407 B4391 near Ffestiniog, Gwynedd A5 near Pentrefoelas, Gwynedd by...
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    that he was buried at Penmachno. He may later have been expelled after the partition, as had Cynan, only to be buried at Penmachno. Arllechwedd commote...
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    situated on Blaen y Cwm farm, an area of around 500 acres (200 ha) in Penmachno which was owned until the 1860s by the Wynne family of Peniarth. The Wynne...
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    "Leinstermen, or simply Leinster." The 5th-century Cantiorix Inscription now in Penmachno church seems to be the earliest record of the name. It is in memory of...
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    weighed 1.75 tons. After closure of the quarry, the Simplex was sold to the Penmachno Slate Quarry near Betws-y-Coed, where it lasted until 1964, but there...
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    parking and an access path to the lake. It can also be approached from Penmachno, taking the left hand turn sign posted Ysbyty Ifan. The path from this...
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