L2024_1198-2 William Alexander Madocks MP (in Explore)
William Alexander Madocks memorial sculpture in wood at the start of The Cob embankment close to the Premier Inn.
Without Madocks building The Cob the Ffestiniog Railway as we know it today would not have been constructed.
William Alexander Madocks MP (June 17, 1773 – September 15, 1828) was a British politician and landowner who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Boston in Lincolnshire from 1802 to 1820, and then for Chippenham in Wiltshire from 1820 to 1826.
He is best known, however, for his activities as an agricultural improver and land reclaimer in Gwynedd, especially around the towns of Porthmadog and Tremadog which he founded and which are named after him.
The Cob embankment at Portmadog was constructed to reclaim the tidal Glaslyn Estuary though came to provide an important transport link by railway and turnpike road.
Furthermore, the rechannelling of the Afon Glaslyn facilitated the creation of Porthmadog Harbour which became a premier slate exporting port in the 19th Century.
Click here for more photographs of Gwynedd: www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Gwynedd
L2024_1198-2 William Alexander Madocks MP (in Explore)
William Alexander Madocks memorial sculpture in wood at the start of The Cob embankment close to the Premier Inn.
Without Madocks building The Cob the Ffestiniog Railway as we know it today would not have been constructed.
William Alexander Madocks MP (June 17, 1773 – September 15, 1828) was a British politician and landowner who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Boston in Lincolnshire from 1802 to 1820, and then for Chippenham in Wiltshire from 1820 to 1826.
He is best known, however, for his activities as an agricultural improver and land reclaimer in Gwynedd, especially around the towns of Porthmadog and Tremadog which he founded and which are named after him.
The Cob embankment at Portmadog was constructed to reclaim the tidal Glaslyn Estuary though came to provide an important transport link by railway and turnpike road.
Furthermore, the rechannelling of the Afon Glaslyn facilitated the creation of Porthmadog Harbour which became a premier slate exporting port in the 19th Century.
Click here for more photographs of Gwynedd: www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Gwynedd