The parish of Nefyn is co-terminous with the former borough\u00a0which was dissolved in 1882, its history having been similar\u00a0to that of the borough of Pwllheli. The town stands on fairly\u00a0level ground at about 1oo ft. above O.D., roughly a quarter\u00a0of a mile inland from the clay cliffs which overlook the\u00a0sheltered bay forming the natural harbour of Porth Nefyn.\u00a0Building has extended along the coast in modern times, but\u00a0the greater part of the area is pasture, mostly low-lying but\u00a0backed on the S.E. by Garn Boduan and adjacent hills.<\/p>\n
The borough emerges late in the 12th or early in the 13th\u00a0century on what must have been one of the largest manors of\u00a0the princes of Gwynedd, and work on manorial buildings\u00a0is recorded in 1306-7.3 The only surviving structure earlier\u00a0than the 18th century, however, is the mutilated motte\u00a0(No. 1682<\/a>). The town-plan shows none of the regularity\u00a0of layout associated with Edwardian boroughs such as\u00a0Conway or Caernarvon, and there is no evidence that it\u00a0was ever fortified.<\/p>\n It was visited by Edward I in 1284, and was the scene of a\u00a0‘Round Table’ or tournament celebrating his conquest of\u00a0Gwynedd. A group of fields extending from below lorwerth\u00a0Villa towards Capel Seion (about 300 yds. N.-S. by 80 yds.,\u00a0with a steep bank on the W., centre at SH 30774027) is now\u00a0known as Cae Iorwerth (‘Edward’s Field’) and are accepted locally as the scene of the tournament. In the Tithe Award\u00a0Schedule of 1838-42 these fields formed part of a larger area\u00a0named Cae Thomas (T.A. Nos. 622-3, 626) and contained a\u00a0rope-walk. which may have been the cause of artificial levelling.\u00a0That Schedule contains no name which can be associated with\u00a0the tournament. In 1833 its supposed location was given as a\u00a0circular earthwork near the Edern road, but no trace of this\u00a0remains.<\/p>\n The parish contains no important monument.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The parish of Nefyn is co-terminous with the former borough\u00a0which was dissolved in 1882, its history having been similar\u00a0to that of the borough of Pwllheli. The town stands on fairly\u00a0level ground at about 1oo ft. above O.D., roughly a quarter\u00a0of a mile inland from the clay cliffs which overlook the\u00a0sheltered bay forming the natural harbour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crwydro.co.uk\/nefyn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}