Historical background
Formerly part of the Waun Fawr, where tenants of Treflan had
the right to graze their animals. An area of late eighteenth-
and early nineteenth-century squatter enclosure originating
in the development of the slate quarries at Cefn Du and Cilgwyn.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Irregular enclosures with dwellings
An ad-hoc arrangement of largely vernacular dwellings set
in small irregular enclosures, sometimes no more than a garden
or vegetable plot, is evident at the south-western end, with
larger dwellings and more regular patterns predominating towards
Llanrug. There are some shops and chapels along the Waunfawr
to Llanrug road, and the area also includes the approach road
to Guglielmo Marconi's wireless station on the common.
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