Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries
Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries is a quarry in Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales. Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries is situated nearby to the quarry Treflan Slate Quarries, as well as near the cemetery Mynwent Cyngor Cymuned Waenfawr.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Garmon’s Church and Waunfawr railway station.
St Garmon’s Church
Church
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Garmon’s Church is situated 2,000 feet south of Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries.
Waunfawr railway station
Railway station
Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.
Waunfawr is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking, to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the London and North Western Railway. Waunfawr railway station is situated 1 mile northwest of Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries.
Betws Inn
Building
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Betws Inn is a building, which is situated 2,100 feet south of Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waunfawr and Rhosgadfan.
Waunfawr
Village
Photo: Ian Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Waunfawr is a village and community, 6 kilometres SE of Caernarfon, near the Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd, in Wales.
Rhosgadfan
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly part of the historic county of Caernarfonshire, and within the community of Llanwnda. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, one of the greatest Welsh-language writers of the 20th century; her childhood home is now a museum. Rhosgadfan is situated 2 miles west of Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries.
Y Fron
Village
Photo: Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Y Fron, also known locally as Cesarea, after the chapel, is a country village on the south-west side of Moel Tryfan, overlooking the Nantlle Valley, in North Wales, near Rhosgadfan and Carmel, on the tail of Mynydd Mawr, with epic views of Trum Y Ddysgl and Craig Cwm Silyn. Y Fron is situated 3 miles southwest of Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries.
Garreg-Fawr Slate Quarries
- Type: Quarry
- Category: industry
- Location: Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.10065° or 53° 6′ 2″ northLongitude
-4.18471° or 4° 11′ 5″ westOpen location code
9C5Q4R28+74OpenStreetMap ID
way 477026451OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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