Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GLYN

GLYN, a place of slate quarries in Carnarvon; on the north-western skirts of Snowdon, 3½ miles NW of Llanberis. The quarries belong to Lord Newborough.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a place of slate quarries"   (ADL Feature Type: "mine sites")
Administrative units: Caernarvonshire Ancient County

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