Historical background
A concentration of tai moel (landless houses) on the road
from the Arfon coastal plain to the commons, immediately above
the site of the gate on the former mountain wall. The village
takes its name from the Calvinistic Methodist chapel established
here in 1827 .
Key historic landscape characteristics
Industrial settlement, roads
This settlement is 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 this community is evident in the topography
and in the narrow streets, based on a main street with a cross-roads
at one end.
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