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I visited the tunnel three times this past week. Long an 'easy' favourite with passers-by, it offers a short venture 'underground' without the need for anything much other than a decent torch. Or so you would hope. The purpose of the visits was a volunteer survey to determine the route and to...

For a long time now I've wanted to get back to North Wales to explore some more of the myriad of quarries up that way. Many years ago I explored Maenofferen on a lovely late spring day and had a quick peek at Ratgoed on a miserable winter afternoon, but always wanted more. After seeing an...

1. The History Located in the Nantlle Valley in North Wales, quarrying at Dorothea commenced in 1929 under the ownership of William Turner and John Morgan. From 1853 onwards the quarry was owned by the Williams family up until its closure in 1970. The quarry was one of the first users of the 3...

Visited this slate quarry in Snowdonia during some super sunny Sunday. I'd been hillwalking the day before and spotted the quarry from Nantlle Ridge, the slate tips being hard to miss! . Reading the map, the name Pen yr Orsedd didn't ring any bells, so I tried to research it a bit but found...

PEN-YR-ORSEDD Explore: A nice quarry on a lovely day, we where the only people here which was the exact opposite to Dinorwic the day after, since it was a bank holiday there was no chance of running into anyone at the active workings, the two big buildings holding multiple vehicles did not have...

Hi, new to the forum and 1st post - the slate quarries of North Wales are where I was bought up, so when I go back to visit the parents, we have a tradition of exploring them. Visited on a sunny afternoon on a whim with the good lady wife, my son and my mother on a family day out (as you do) -...

Dorothea Slate Quarry – Nantlle Valley History (The history has been more or less copied/plagiarised from a couple of websites on the slate quarries of the Nantlle Valley, they make an interesting read and far better than Wikipedia ;)). Across the North West corner of Wales lies a long...

Pen-yr-Orsedd Slate Quarry - Nantlle History The Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry was one of the major slate producers of the Nantlle Valley, supplying over 10,000 tons of product in 1864. It was also the last quarry in the vale that commercially produced slate, closing in 1979. In 1862 the...

Finally managed to find some piccys of a look round Penyrorsedd in 1991. Penyrorsedd is one of several slate quarries around Nantlle, most of which had closed by the 1970s. At the time of visiting the quarry was still in use but only the 'big hole' part being worked by modern methods. There...