Photograph: Clinker Boats and the Cob, Porthmadog

PHOTOGRAPH: Clinker Boats and the Cob, Porthmadog.

Crossing from Penrhyndeudraeth and Minffordd to the Penmorfa side in Caernarfonshire was very dangerous. People had to employ experienced guides to cross the sands safely, and a boat had to be used at high tide. When the Act of Union was signed in 1800, traffic to North Wales was likely to rise. Building the Cob in Porthmadog was William Alexander Madocks' (1773 - 1828) idea. Madocks tried to build a port for ships to Dublin from the area outside Tremadog. Madocks built Tremadog; he bought the land in 1798 and began building a modern town, but then he saw an opportunity to increase his property holdings by building the Cob along the River Glaslyn estuary.

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Cyflwr da /Good condition

Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

https://www.peoplescollection.wales/content/cob-porthmadog

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