Historical background
A nineteenth-century ribbon development established along
the Caernarfon to Porthmadog road on Newborough estate land.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Ribbon settlement
The nucleus of the village is the early nineteenth-century
stone bridge over the Afon Gwyrfai and the Newborough Arms
public house nearby (SH48315989), established pre-1815, a building
which retains some polite architectural features. Later buildings
include a late nineteenth century brick-built terrace alongside
the road, an interesting mill complex, Capel Siloam, a ‘German-church'
Calvinistic Methodist chapel dating from 1866 (SH48315993),
and a local design of mid-twentieth century prefabricated house,
apparently built on a timber frame with a slate roof, as well
as more recent social housing and suburban estates as Caernarfon
overspill.
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