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The Nantlle Valley is predominantly a football-playing region and a number of football clubs have been founded in the area over the years. The most prominent is Nantlle Vale FC [ 14 ] which was established in the early part of the 20th century and is still playing, based at Pen-y-groes.
The pumping house at Dorothea Moel Tryfan and Alexandra quarries. The Slate Industry in the Nantlle Valley was the major industry of the area. The Nantlle Valley is the site of oldest slate quarry in Wales at Cilgwyn, and during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was a major centre of the Slate industry in Wales.
Nantlle was a railway station located in Talysarn, a neighbouring village to Nantlle, in Gwynedd, Wales. From 1828 the narrow gauge, horse-drawn Nantlle Railway ran from wharves at Caernarfon through Penygroes and through the site of the future Nantlle station to slate quarries around the village of Nantlle.
Nantlle: Quarry connected to the Nantlle Railway. Gallt-y-Fedw quarry tramway [3] 1857 1901 2 ft (610 mm) and 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Fron: Quarry connected to the Nantlle Railway. Gorseddau Tramway/Tremadoc Tramway [8] 1855 1872 3 ft (914 mm) Porthmadog: Horse-powered tramway serving the remote slate quarries of the Cwmystradllyn valley.
A halt was located at the same site for the horse drawn Nantlle Tramway, which was originally used purely for transportation of goods from the quarries in the Nantlle Valley to the harbour at Caernarfon. Passenger services were introduced on 11 August 1856, which ran until 12 June 1865. [2]
The Nantlle Railway (or Nantlle Tramway) was a Welsh narrow gauge railway. It was built to carry slate from several slate quarries across the Nantlle Valley to the harbour at Caernarfon for export by sea. The line provided a passenger service between Caernarfon and Talysarn from 1856 to 1865. It was the first public railway to be operated in ...
The historical society was founded in 2001 and the museum is in the old Commercial Hotel building at 102 E. Main St. It's focused on preserving the history of the western part of Coshocton County ...
Cilgwyn quarry is a slate quarry located on the north edge of the Nantlle Valley, in North Wales. It is one of the earliest slate quarries in Great Britain, having been worked as early as the 12th century. [1] [2] King Edward I of England was reputed to have stayed in a house roofed by Cilgwyn slates during his conquest of Wales. [3]