Historic background
An area traditionally used as a sheepwalk,
situated between the quarryman-cottager settlements of 33 and
42, which remained unenclosed during the population increases
of the nineteenth century.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Unenclosed upland
An area of largely unenclosed upland, in which
there are a few smallholdings and early turbaries, as well
as the early nineteenth century water-catchment systems for
Penrhyn Quarry. There is some forestry.
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