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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 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. The quarries of the area are a World Heritage Site. [1]
Railway enthusiast Rich Morris began collecting narrow gauge rolling stock in 1963, [2] storing many at his home in Longfield in Kent. [3] As the collection grew he sought a more permanent arrangement and in 1976, he came to an agreement with the Festiniog Slate Group to move many of his locomotives to Pen-yr-Orsedd, where he planned to set up a museum to exhibit his collection and tell the ...
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 ...
Alexandra quarry was a slate quarry in North Wales, on the slopes of Moel Tryfan in north Gwynedd.It was part of one of the major slate quarrying regions of Wales, centred on the Nantlle Valley during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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]
Nantlle (Welsh pronunciation ⓘ) is a small village in the slate quarrying Nantlle Valley in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies on the north shore of Llyn Nantlle Uchaf and is part of the community of Llanllyfni. The population was 228 in 2011 with 42% born in England. [1] war memorial in village
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.