Marchlyn Slate Quarry

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Recorded period

20th Century

What is recorded here

Marchlyn Slate Quarry is a slate quarry in Gwynedd, Wales.

From the Coflein (National Monuments Record of Wales) record 400677

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Photo credits

• Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Nigel Williams, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Chris Andrews, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Bill Boaden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Rude Health, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Explorer Tom Elidir Fawr rises above Llanberis with one flank shaped by the Dinorwig slate workings and the other by the hard…

Palm trees a thousand feet up a Welsh mountainMountain or hill · 1.1 mi

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