Historical background
Conwy Morfa was used for grazing sheep and for defensive purposes
by the time it enters the historic record in the eighteenth
century. As early as 1768 a map appears to show a military
camp there, and it was used in the latter part of the nineteenth
century as a training camp for the Volunteer movement, in particular
the 20th regiment of the Lancashire Fusiliers and the 6th and
7th Battalions of the Territorial Army. It was the scene of
the young David Lloyd George's brief flirtation with military
life in 1880.
Much of the area is now given over to a caravan park and a
gold course.
A fish house is shown on Lewis Morris's map of 1748 on the
north coast.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Sand dunes, golf course
A largely featureless area of encroachment from the sea.
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