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Criccieth
Criccieth is a small town on Tremadog Bay in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, in the old district of Eifionydd. Its castle was built by Llywelyn the Great in the 1230s and was taken and strengthened by Edward I after his conquest of Wales in 1283. Owain Glyndŵr's forces captured and burned it in 1404.
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