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    Bwlch y Slaters quarry (also known as Manod quarry, New Manod quarry, or, since the closure of the nearby Cwt y Bugail quarry, Cwt y Bugail quarry) is...
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    from the nearby Bwlch y Slaters quarry, which was also known as Manod, and is referred to as New Manod. In the 1840s, the Manod quarry moved northwards...
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    which later served Bwlch y Slaters quarry. After a period when there is no evidence that any activity took place, with part of the quarry being abandoned...
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    and Bwlch Pennant) that lie between the peaks of Foel Eryr and Foel Cwmcerwyn. Rosebush did not exist as a village before slate began to be quarried nearby...
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    Snowdon (redirect from Over Y Lliwedd)
    sheds, remain. From the slate quarries, the Watkin Path veers to the north-east to reach Bwlch Ciliau, the col between Snowdon and Y Lliwedd, which is marked...
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    Ffestiniog Slate. Snowdonia National Park Study Centre, Plas Tan y Bwlch. ISBN 0-9512373-1-4 Lindsay, Jean. 1974. A History of the North Wales Slate Industry...
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    family from Tan y Bwlch. Within a decade, three slate quarries were operating on Allt-fawr. These amalgamated to form Oakeley Quarry, which became the...
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    Plas Tan y Bwlch in Gwynedd, Wales, is the Snowdonia National Park environmental studies centre, administered by the National Park Authority. It is located...
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    Tan-y-Bwlch railway station is the principal intermediate passenger station on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed...
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    Cwmorthin quarry was a slate quarry west of the village of Tanygrisiau, north Wales. Quarrying on the site started in 1810. In 1860 it was connected to...
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  • Wales. Sallery, Dave. "Manod / Welsh Slate's 'Cwt y Bugail Quarry': A brief history of the quarry". "MOELWYN SLATE MINE". The Royal Commission on the Historical...
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    leased land near Rhiwbryfdir farm. The landlords, the Oakeley family of Tan y Bwlch took a 10% royalty for the three-year lease. In 1821, at the end of the...
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    Porthmadog (redirect from Borth-y-Gest)
    public wharves appeared in 1825. Quarry companies followed, with wharves along the shore almost to Borth-y-Gest, while slate was carted from Ffestiniog down...
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    Bwlch Llanberis; alternative English name, Pass of Llanberis) in Snowdonia carries the main road (A4086) from the south-east to Llanberis, over Pen-y-Pass...
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    Prince Llewellyn quarry (also known as Bwlch Cynnud quarry, Y Foel quarry, Hendre Ddu quarry, or Prince Llywelyn quarry) was a slate quarry that stands on...
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    Cwm-pandy slate quarry, a small slate quarry at 52°36′26.0″N 4°01′27.9″W / 52.607222°N 4.024417°W / 52.607222; -4.024417.[citation needed] The quarry was...
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    timetable. Hafod y Llyn was replaced by Tan y Bwlch around 1872. Dinas (Rhiw) Station and much of that branch is now all but buried under slate waste; the rest...
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    Ty'n-y-bryn quarry (also known as Bwlch y Llan quarry or Lledr Vale quarry) was a slate quarry that was worked from the 1840s to about 1914. It stands...
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    Ogwen Cottage via a traverse of Y Garn and Foel-goch. The route makes its way around the headwall of Cwm Dudodyn to Bwlch y Brecan and up to the rocky summit...
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    Pen-y-Gwryd. Other roads of note include that from Llanuwchllyn up Cwm Cynllwyd to Dinas Mawddwy via the 545 metres (1,788 feet) high pass of Bwlch y Groes...
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    the Tan-y-Bwlch estate claimed it was working on their land. In 1861 the Glan-y-Pwll Slate & Slab Company Ltd. was incorporated to work the quarry. In 1867...
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    Pasture) Gwaun Bwlch Hafod-y-gog Gwaun Cilgwyn Gwaun Efail Wig Gwaun Efail-Llwydiarth Gwaun Llan (Llan Pastures) Gwaun Llwyn-gwyn Gwaun Wern-y-wig Gwernaffel...
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    Mynachlog-ddu, New Inn, Pentre Galar, Puncheston, Maenclochog, Rosebush and Tafarn-y-Bwlch. The only town in the Preseli area is Newport, at the foot of the Carningli-Dinas...
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    2014-11-14 Rhiw : Religion Retrieved 2009-08-16 Rhiw : Bwlch y Garreg Wen Retrieved 2009-08-16 Rhiw : Tyn y Graig Retrieved 2009-08-16 Rhiw : Meillionydd Fawr...
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    Aberdaron (redirect from Trwyn y Penrhyn)
    10th century to prevent incursions by Vikings into Porth Neigwl. Bwlch y Garreg Wen at Y Rhiw, built in 1731, is a croglofft cottage, a type of agricultural...
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    Church, Betws-y-Coed. Jones built the parsonage at Llandrillo, Denbighshire in 1872. In the mid 1870s, Jones opened the Bwlch Gordduant quarry in the Crimea...
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    Valley quarries, and Blaenau Ffestiniog, where the slate was mined rather than quarried. Penrhyn and Dinorwig were the two largest slate quarries in the...
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    overlooks the village. Plas Tan y Bwlch has its own halt - Plas Halt - on the Ffestiniog Railway, and nearby Tan-y-Bwlch railway station is the railway's...
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    Croesor Tramway (category Slate industry in Wales)
    cliffs of Bwlch y Rhosydd. Here two extremely long inclines rise, one north to reach the Rhosydd Tramway and one east to reach Croesor Quarry. A large...
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    of Dinas Mot in the Llanberis Pass and those of Craig Bwlch-y-moch, Craig y Castell and Craig y Gesail near Tremadog.[citation needed] Silurian sedimentary...
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