Historical background
A nineteenth-century slate quarry village, associated with
the bard T H Parry-Williams.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Industrial ribbon settlement
A community which grew up, principally along the road, to
serve the slate quarries at Glanrafon, Clogwyn y Gwin, and
Llyn y Gadair, and which formed a station on the North Wales
Narrow Gauge Railway/Welsh Highland Railway, now in process
of revival. Buildings are mainly nineteenth-century terraces,
with some larger houses for teachers and ministers. The village,
and the Cwellyn Arms public house in particular, forms a popular
starting-point for climbers and walkers tackling Snowdon and
the Nantlle ridge.
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