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Lon Las Ogwen, Nant Ffrancon |
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View into Nant Ffrancon from cycleway
Graded shale cycleway (part of route 82) at the side of the Penrhyn Quarry slate tips with Pen-yr-Ole Wen and Carnedd Dafydd in the distance.
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Slate Quarry tips
Slate quarry tips at the lower end of the Ogwen valley, the Lon Ogwen cycle track runs behind the wall on the left, and skirts around the edges of the tips all the way to the far side of the quarry a distance of about 2 miles
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Quarry cabin
by idris
Old workers cabin high on Penrhyn slate quarry gallery.
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Blasting at the Penrhyn Quarry viewed from Cwm Ffrydlas
by Eric Jones
I had just started on my lunch when the 'take cover' siren was sounded at the Penrhyn. This was followed a minute or two later by a series of blasts and shortly afterwards by the warble of the 'all clear'. Today's... (more)
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Llandygai : Penrhyn Quarry
by Lewis Clarke
At this point in Penrhyn Quarry where you can see the launch spot of the Velocity 2.
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Slate arch
This arch is the last remaining on the old south workings of Penrhyn Quarry. It supports the incline from the top of the quarry between the upper two drum houses. The incline eventually went over The Cob to the main quarry mills.
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Looking up the Nant Ffrancon valley
From Lon Las Ogwen at the edge of Penrhyn Slate Quarry.
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Chwarel y Penrhyn Quarry and Carnedd y Filiast
by Eric Jones
The image was taken from the slopes of Gyrn Wigau on the north side of the Ogwen Valley. Now owned by an Ulster company - The Lagan Group - Chwarel y Penrhyn in the heyday of the Welsh slate industry was the world's largest slate quarry..
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The quarry is just outside the National Park
by Ian Greig
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Off the edge of the world
by Ian Greig
If you're using the digital version of the OS National Park map, you've run out of map. They don't give you anything beyond the park boundary.
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Path below Penrhyn Slate Quarry
by Bill Boaden
The path also incorporates cycle route 82.
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