Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Penrhyn Slate Quarries

Penrhyn Slate Quarries, Carnarvonshire, in 8. vicinity of Bethesda; the quarries are very extensive, giving employment to several thousand hands, and the slate is conveyed to Pert Penrhyn at Bangor.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Administrative units: Caernarvonshire Ancient County
Place: Penrhyn Slate Quarries

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