llangollen

The Wynne slate mine is located on the immediate east side of Glyn Ceiriog, on the north side of Quarry Road. It was originally a hillside working dating from about 1770 and was further developed in the 1870s with underground workings developed in about 1890. In 1898 the quarry employed 64 men...

April 2025 I found this place by chance while driving through Llangollen over the Easter weekend. After noticing the building, I quickly parked in the nearby Aldi car park and walked over for a closer look. On the ground floor, I entered a large, open space cluttered with junk. It seems locals...

The Royal Hotel, the most prominent building in Llangollen, a hotel situated besides the River Dee in Llangollen, North Wales The Royal is seen as far back as 1752 in a commercial directory, nobody is sure of it's original date of construction. In 1832 Princess Victoria, the future queen...

I stopped off here on the way through Llangollen because it looked vaguely warehouse-like, albeit rather wrecked. History abridged from https://cadw.gov.wales/sites/default/files/2019-05/Llangollen- Understanding Urban Character_0.pdf: It was “the Pen y Bryn Brewery from around 1840. It...

A grand day out and another mine ticked off! every time I'm blown away by the sheer size of the chambers that really have to be seen to be believed or even just to get a scale of how huge they are, the countless man hours put in to extract the slate doesn't bear thinking about. Theres a few nice...

It seemed a great idea at the time... On the drive back from Cwmorthin Slate Mine in north Wales we though instead of sit in Friday evening traffic around Birmingham why don't we kill an hour at Penarth? Well having never been before i had no idea the hike up to the adit was worse than the hike...

As the weekend approached, so did another explore for myself @EOA and @monk. Seems we are a good trio of bell ends and something usually goes wrong somewhere down the line and Moel Fferna wasn’t going to let us (or shall I say me) down. Anyway, Myself and @EOA started the day with our customary...

Explored with @elhomer12 and @Darryl Kinney Finding the WO I am not really sure, and I don’t think anyone really knows, what kind of a creature the “WO”, really is. All I know and all anyone seems to know, is it’s very elusive. Well, that and it lives in Penarth slate mine near Llangollen...

Visited twice this week. I know this has been covered before, but very beautiful spot.Sorry if posting not correct, but my first with photos. http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm151/regcarf/IMG_0612_zpsihohcipb.jpg http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm151/regcarf/IMG_0605_zpsoitovxah.jpg...

Quite a few reports on here of this place and its history - amazing voluminous mine - felt like we only explored half of it and will have to go back again sometime - hope you enjoy the pictures A bit of history lifted from nwex.co.uk - Early workings tended to be in surface pits, but as the...

Props to Georgie for the info on this place, Visited with Telf, MSP and Ellis. I was really pleased to find that this place was quite vast inside although not much in the way of artifacts or machinery to speak of. Chwarel Wynne slate mine was worked up until 1928 and then sat dormant for many...

Thrillseekers slammed after breaking into disused Llangollen mine 22-3-2011 a little article on a mine me and a few others done last month...28 gets a mention aswell and link to report...

when i first seen pictures of this mine it definetly drew me into mine exploring ,a not only derelict mine but one that was opened as a leisure site to the public....win! anyway me, sallybear,gibbo,tcci,and darwen dave,had a trip planned to the cambrian just a stones throw away from this...

cant find much info out on this place other than this the cambrian is situated in the hills of ceiriog consisted of 4 large open workings,and a considerable amount of underground workings im sure i read somewhere that this place exploded due to some form of gas yrs ago anyhow my first...