Harlech
Harlech is a seaside resort and also community in the north-west Wales county of Gwynedd. Prior to 1974 it was in the historic limits of Merionethshire The town lies on Tremadog Bay in the centre of Gwynedd within the Snowdonia National Park. It has been in the unitary authority of Gwynedd because 1996, as well as prior to that in the Meirionydd District of the 1974 County of Gwynedd. Of its population of 1,447, 51 per cent habitually speak the Welsh language. Its site Harlech Castle was begun in 1283 by Edward I of England, recorded by Owain Glyndwr, as well as in the 1480s a fortress of Henry Tudor. It was improved a high cliff face alongside the sea, yet shoreline modifications indicate it now lies about half a mile (800 m) inland. New real estate has been constructed in the reduced town location as well as in the high town around the purchasing road, church and castle. Both locations are linked by a high, winding roadway called "Twtil".