CONWAY, CONWY or ABERCONWY, municipal bor ough, Carnarvonshire, Wales, 14m. by the L.M.S.R. from Bangor. Pop. (1931) 8,769. The river crossing on the North Wales coastal route has been important from early times. Caerhun, 4-im. from the present town, is on the high road from London to Holyhead and is the Canovium of the Romans. The site was excavated in 1926-27 revealing a Roman fort occupied down to Antonine times (see Arch. Camb., 1926-27 seq.). Diganhwy (Dyganwy, Deganwy) is mentioned in the Mabinogion (Geraint and Enid), if the reading is sound; it is certainly mentioned in the Annales Cambriae (years 812-82 2 ), and in the Black Book of Carmarthen, xxiii., 1. The town is enclosed by a high wall, roughly triangular, about Im. round, with 21 dilapidated round towers and their gate ways. The castle in the south-east angle, built in 1284 by Edward I., was, in 1389, the scene of Richard II.'s agreement to abdicate. There are still ruins of the Cistercian abbey 0185), whose site is now occupied by the Gothic church of St. Mary (13th century and later). The castle was held for Charles I. by Archbishop Williams and taken by Gen. Mytton in 1646. It was later dis mantled. Pearl fisheries existed at Conway for many centuries, dating back to the Roman occupation. Two bridges, a tubular one for the railway and a suspension one, designed by Stephenson (1846-48) and Telford (18 2 2-26) respectively, cross the Conwy. The Elizabethan Plas Mawr is the locale of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. Conway is in the Carnarvon Boroughs parlia mentary division.