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ward, with his faster, smaller, and more manoeuvrable ships, attacked the Spanish in battles off Plymouth, Portland Bill, and the Isle of Wight. Unable to break the Armada's formation, however, the English waited for a chance to strike a decisive blow. The opportunity came when the Armada anchored nAberconwy and Colwyn (Welsh, Aberconwy a Cholwyn), county borough, northern Wales, bounded on the north by the Irish Sea, on the east by the county of Denbighshire, and on the south and west by the county of Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire. The county borough came into existence on April 1, 1996, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1994, which changed the structure of local administration in Wales from a two-tier system of county and district councils to a single-tier system of unitary authorities. It comprises the district of Aberconwy from the eastern border of the former county of Gwynedd and almost all of the district of Colwyn on the western border of the former county of Clwyd. A small area from the west of Colwyn district was transferred to Denbighshire. Before 1974, when Gwynedd and Clwyd were created under the local government reorganization implemented in that year, the territory covered by the county borough was divided between the counties of Caernarvonshire in the west and Denbighshire in the east. Aberconwy and Colwyn has an area of 1,130 sq km (436 sq mi). Land and Resources Much of Aberconwy and Colwyn lies within the Snowdonia National Park. The coastal plain soon changes to uplands inland. To the west are the mountains of Snowdonia, while on the eastern side of the county borough the hills and mountains are those of the northern end of the Cambrian Mountains.
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