Historical background
A drained area of former marshland, enclosed by act of 1806
and an award of 1831. A decision was made around the turn of
the century to develop the area to the north of the hillfort
into a holiday destination (see also Morfa Bychan, Fairbourne
etc.), and part of the area was divided up into rectangular
plots to accommodate hotels, flats guest houses and houses
as well as certain infrastructure buildings. A map (undated)
in the SMR FI file shows the plots delineated and numbered,
as well as a number of roads laid out and embankments.
The venture seems to have floundered for financial reasons, and
only a small number of hotels and guest houses, along with a
barracks-like accommodation hut, were built immediately north
of the hillfort.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Regular enclosures, waterways, caravan parks
A flat area of open fields, with a row of late nineteenth-
and twentieth-century hotels, guest-houses and souvenir shops
along the front. The sea shore has been strengthened recently
by the deposition of stone and gabions.
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