Dinorwic quarry
Dinorwic quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Quarry
- Description: large former slate quarry near Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales and World Heritage Site.
- Also known as: “Dinorwic Quarry” and “Dinorwig quarry”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dolbadarn Castle and National Slate Museum.
Dolbadarn Castle
Castle
Dolbadarn Castle is a fortification built by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great during the early 13th century, at the base of the Llanberis Pass, in northern Wales. Dolbadarn Castle is situated 1 mile southwest of Dinorwic quarry.
National Slate Museum
Museum
Photo: Talsarnau Times, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Slate Museum is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd. National Slate Museum is situated 4,200 feet west of Dinorwic quarry.
Gilfach Ddu railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gilfach Ddu railway station is an intermediate station on the Llanberis Lake Railway, located in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. Most of the LLR was laid around 1970 on part of the trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway. Gilfach Ddu railway station is situated 4,200 feet west of Dinorwic quarry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dinorwig and Nant Peris.
Dinorwig
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dinorwig, historically spelled as Dinorwic in English, is a village located high above Llyn Padarn, near Llanberis, in Wales. The name is shared with the fort of Dinas Dinorwig, also within the community of Llanddeiniolen, on a foothill 6 kilometres from Dinorwig village and 3 kilometres from the Menai Strait and also with Port Dinorwic, the anglicised name of Y Felinheli.
Deiniolen
Village
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Deiniolen is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, at the foot of Elidir Fawr, in Llanddeiniolen Community. Deiniolen has views over Caernarfon and on a clear day, Holyhead Mountain and occasionally the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, can be seen. Deiniolen is situated 2 miles northwest of Dinorwic quarry.
Dinorwic quarry
- Categories: archaeological site and industry
- Location: Llanberis, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.12188° or 53° 7′ 19″ northLongitude
-4.0964° or 4° 5′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C5Q4WC3+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 38775657OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarryWikidata ID
Q1226688
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Dinorwic quarry” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “迪諾里奇板岩採石場”
- Chinese: “迪諾里奇板巖採石場”
- Cornish: “Mengeludh Dinorwik”
- Cornish: “Mengleudh Dinorwik”
- German: “Dinorwic-Schiefer”
- German: “Dinorwic-Steinbruch”
- Hebrew: “מחצבת דינורוויג”
- Irish: “Cairéal Dinorwig”
- Italian: “Cava di Dinorwic”
- Russian: “Динорвик”
- Welsh: “Chwarel Dinorwig”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Water Tank and Water Tank.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dinorwic quarry”. Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.