Minllyn quarry was a slate quarry near Dinas Mawddwy in Wales that opened before 1793 and continued working intermittently until 1925. The quarry is located...
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to the Ratgoed Tramway Maes-y-gamfa quarry a smaller operation, connected to the Hendre-Ddu Tramway Minllyn quarry, near Dinas Mawddwy, connected to the...
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nascent quarry and began more serious work. In August 1868, the Hendreddu Slate Quarry Company was formed, managed by Edward Davies from Minllyn quarry. In...
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connected to the Hendre-Ddu Tramway Gartheiniog quarry, also connected to the Hendre-Ddu Tramway Minllyn quarry connected to the Mawddwy Railway "Narrow Vein...
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Mawddwy. The southern shoulder of the mountain was the location of Minllyn quarry from the 1790s to 1925. "FOEL DINAS, GWYNEDD (SY20 9LX)". Ordnance Survey...
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Mawddwy Railway (section Slate quarrying: 1790s – 1865)
Company was formed to work the quarry, but it went bankrupt in 1844. The main quarry was Minllyn quarry, a Narrow Vein quarry about a mile south of the town...
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Narrow Vein came to the surface. In 1864, he purchased and re-opened Minllyn quarry. To get the slate to market he built the Mawddwy Railway to connect...
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Edward Hurst Davies (section Quarrying)
supervisor, who had re-opened Minllyn slate quarry at Dinas Mawddwy in 1864, then oversaw the opening of the Hendreddu quarry near Aberangell. Edward Hurst...
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his younger brother Jacob. Bullock, from Macclesfield, leased the Minllyn slate quarry at Dinas Mawddwy in Mid Wales from Sir Edmund Buckley in 1864. In...
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Dyfi hills (section Slate quarrying)
Hendre-ddu, Gartheiniog on Mynydd Gartheiniog in the centre of the hills; and Minllyn on Foel Dinas just south of Dinas Mawddwy. The majority of the area of...
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Railway. The building was originally a slate warehouse for the nearby Minllyn Slate Quarry. After the Second World War, the building was converted into a woollen...
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not yet identified. GAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: ME094: Pont Minllyn coflein NPRN: not yet identified. GAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM:...
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Mallwyd Afon Cerist at Dinas Mawddwy Afon Cywarch at Aber-Cywarch Pont Minllyn Dyfi Bridge (Welsh: Pont ar Ddyfi) The area around Aberystwyth and the...
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Alexandra quarry was a slate quarry in North Wales, on the slopes of Moel Tryfan in north Gwynedd. It was part of one of the major slate quarrying regions...
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northern terminus of the railway, which was built to serve the slate quarries at Minllyn and Aberangell and to provide passenger services along the upper...
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The Cambrian quarry was a slate quarry, located to the west of Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire, North Wales. There was some small-scale extraction of slate...
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built in 1867 to serve as a warehouse for the nearby Minllyn slate quarry. Slate products from the quarry were stored in the warehouse, waiting to be shipped...
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in the construction of narrow gauge railways and the ownership of slate quarries in North Wales during the second half of the 19th century. Hugh Beaver...
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Retrieved 19 November 2012. "Pont Minllyn, Mawddwy". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2012. "Pont Minllyn". ancientmonuments.info. Retrieved...
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