Historical background
Two nucleations arising
from the dual economy of quarry and tyddy, established
on crown commons from 1798 onwards. Rhosgadfan is associated
with the novelist Dr Kate Roberts.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Industrial settlement, ribbon development
These associated settlements are made up of a variety of traditional
vernacular and ‘industrial-vernacular' dwellings, as well as
standard late nineteenth-century terracing, shops and chapels,
with some decorative ironwork, and twentieth-century social
housing. The ad-hoc nature of these two communities and their
development is evident in the topography.
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