Historical background
An upland area, given over to sheep pasture. A cart road from
Rhyd Ddu to the slate quarries at Bwlch Cwm Llan runs through
the area.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Unenclosed mountain
Open pasture on the slopes of Snowdon . The cart road to the
quarries is an engineered feature and is popular with walkers.
Relatively free of evidence of past human inhabitation.
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