Historical background
A coastal strip on which there was established a shipping
point for Nantlle slate: there is now little trace of the original
site.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Low-lying former shipping area, farmhouses
An exposed coastal strip, whose salient points include the
isolated part-medieval church of Llanfaglan (SH45546069), a
few substantial farmhouses, and the cluster of buildings at
Hen Foryd (SH 4531 5878) at the mouth of the Gwyrfai, the traditional
shipping point for Nantlle and Moel Tryfan slates in pre-railway
days. A number of houses and a lime-kiln survive here, but
there is no evident trace of the larger settlement with its
pubs and shops that is believed to have flourished here in
the eighteenth century. The Llwyn Yn (sic) brickworks was established
at Morfa Cwtta in the 1850s and continued to function until
the twentieth century. A medieval fish-trap, probably associated
with the church at Clynnog, extends out across the mud flats
towards the deep water channel. Part of the area now forms
an RSPB reserve.
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