Vast dry stone monoliths, semi-ruined buildings, terraced hillsides and soaring inclines give the quarry the air of an abandoned Aztec city stripped of its jungle. Being so close to Llanberis at ...
Concerns that Dinorwic Quarry is being turned into an amusement ... Visitors have access to large car parks in Llanberis but many prefer to park at the Allt-Ddu bus terminal as it’s free and ...
The Dinorwic quarry above Llanberis was the second largest mine in North Wales and when it closed definitively in 1969 it left behind a wasteland of vast proportions. The entire area was abandoned for ...
The Dinorwic quarry above Llanberis was the second largest mine in North Wales and when it closed definitively in 1969 it left behind a wasteland of vast proportions. The entire area was abandoned for ...
If you’ve driven between Bangor and Llanberis, you’ve passed the walls of the Vaynol Estate, where the lord who owned Dinorwig Quarry lived. After an Enclosure Act, the estate grew to 35,000 acres.
Cyngor Gwynedd is to consider a full application for restoration works at the National Slate Museum in Llanberis ... of the once thriving Dinorwig slate quarry and has some of Britain’s best ...