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The town has a market on Wednesdays which includes traditional Welsh, Spanish and French food stalls. Performance at the 2016 comedy festival. The town has hosted the Machynlleth Comedy Festival annually since May 2010, featuring comedians such as Jon Richardson, Pappy's, Josie Long, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. The festival dominates the ...
The stable building that still remains at the end of Brickfield Street The tramroad to Machynlleth Town station passed under the Cambrian Railways in the bricked-up arch on the right. Machynlleth Town was a station on the Corris Railway in Wales. It was the original passenger and goods station for the town of Machynlleth. It was opened around ...
The narrow-gauge horse-drawn Upper Corris Tramway was part of the infrastructure which carried slate from the quarries to Machynlleth. [2] Corris Uchaf has a garden of Italian follies built by Mark and Muriel Bourne. A trust has been set up to care for the site. [3]
Corris circa 1885. Corris is a village in the county of Gwynedd, Wales, about 4.5 miles (7 km) north of the town of Machynlleth.The village lies on the west bank of the Afon Dulas (which here forms the boundary with Powys), around that river's confluence with the Afon Deri.
The Black Lion Inn. Derwenlas is a hamlet in northern Powys, Wales.It is part of the community of Cadfarch.. Part of the historic county of Montgomeryshire (Sir Drefaldwyn) from 1536 to 1974, it lies on the River Dyfi and was once a port serving the market town of Machynlleth.
Machynlleth was a station on the Corris Railway in Merioneth (now Gwynedd), Wales. It was opened in 1863 as a pair of wharves for the transshipment of slate onto the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. In 1878, it was opened to passenger traffic, replacing the earlier Machynlleth Town, and was adjacent to the standard gauge station of the same ...
Map of Corris Railway station in the 1890s. In late 1929, the Corris Railway was purchased by the Great Western Railway (GWR), who by that time were the owners of the main line serving Machynlleth station. The GWR's main interest in the railway was its bus services, and in January 1931 the competing passenger services on the Corris Railway were ...
It built a line from a junction with the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway near Caersws to the market town of Machynlleth; the line opened in 1862. Newtown had become the hub of railway lines in the district. Machynlleth was an important town, and extension from there to Aberystwyth and to the coast northward was in the minds of the promoters.