Historical background
One of the smaller local estates, now a holiday village and
caravan park. The garden may date from the early nineteenth
century; Fenton in 1813 states that the grounds and their ‘winding
walks' were laid out by Arthur Wyatt, nephew of Benjamin. ‘Plantations'
and a small house ‘handsomely fitted up' are mentioned by Hyde
Hall in 1809-11, when it was owned by Thomas Lloyd of Shrewsbury
. It was inhabited at one stage by a Mr Greaves, probably the
tenant of various slate quarries who came to develop Llechwedd
Quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, who is believed to have moved
to Aberglaslyn Hall. Hyde Hall also confirms that the area
included a fulling mill and a paper mill.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Estate and gardens, now caravan park
The area is dominated by chalets, mobile home and caravans
laid out along the Afon Seiont. The course of the
former Caernarfon to Llanberis railway line passes through
the estate. The grounds are wooded. The water features probably
pre-date the grounds and may originally have been constructed
for an industrial purpose: a fulling mill, of which the site
is no longer apparent, is marked on Hyde Hall's sketch map
of 1809-11. The area includes the site of the Bodrhual mill,
attested in 1597.
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