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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bangor
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(12,000 in 1991) Town on the northwest coast of Wales, opposite Anglesey, which can claim to be the oldest diocese in Britain. It seems likely that St Deiniol established a Celtic monastery here in 525 (more than 70 years before St *Augustine arrived in Canterbury) and that he was appointed bishop in 546. The present cathedral dates back to the 14C but has been much altered and restored.
The town is also the home of the University College of North Wales. Founded here in 1883, it became in 1893 one of the five colleges of the University of Wales. The main buildings, forming a quadrangle on a hill above the town, were completed in 1910 to the designs of Henry Thomas Hare.
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