Y Felinheli
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Y Felinheli, formerly known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village and community beside the Menai Strait between Bangor and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, northwest Wales.
Road bridge at Y Felinheli marina
St Mary's Church, an Early English style church built in 1865
Dinorwic quarry
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Dinorwic quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in Wales. At its height at the start of the 20th cen
Y Felinheli
…was brought in to fire the lime kilns. The owners of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, owned most of the land in Y Felinheli and developed the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They also built the harbour to export slate transported to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a narrow gauge railway that was…
Vivian quarry, part of the Dinorwic quarry
The Vivian transporter incline, completed in 1873, and restored in 1998. The transporters run on 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauge tracks.
Welsh Slate Museum located in Gilfach Ddu
Johnny Dawes on Poetry Pink (E5 6b), Rainbow Slab