Quarry Hospital
Quarry Hospital is a museum in Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Wales. Quarry Hospital is situated nearby to Padarn Water Sports Centre, as well as near Gilfach Ddu railway station.Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Llanberis
- Also known as: “Old Quarry Hospital” and “Ysbyty chwarel”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gilfach Ddu railway station and National Slate Museum.
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 1,000 feet southeast of Quarry Hospital.
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 1,700 feet southeast of Quarry Hospital.
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 3,100 feet south of Quarry Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanberis and Dinorwig.
Llanberis
Photo: Hefin Owen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanberis is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake Llyn Padarn and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.
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 1½ miles north of Quarry Hospital.
Quarry Hospital
- Categories: organization, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.12468° or 53° 7′ 29″ northLongitude
-4.11877° or 4° 7′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C5Q4VFJ+VFOpenStreetMap ID
way 95600884OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q85673818
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Quarry Hospital from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Quarry Hospital” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Quarry Hospital”
- Basque: “Ysbyty chwarel”
- Catalan: “Quarry Hospital”
- Catalan: “Ysbyty chwarel”
- French: “Quarry Hospital”
- French: “Ysbyty chwarel”
- Irish: “Quarry Hospital”
- Irish: “Ysbyty chwarel”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Quarry Hospital”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ysbyty chwarel”
- Swedish: “Quarry Hospital”
- Swedish: “Ysbyty chwarel”
- Welsh: “Ysbyty chwarel”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Padarn Water Sports Centre and Vivian Quarry.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Coach Parking and Padarn Pottery.
Gwynedd: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Bangor, Tywyn, Caernarfon, and Bardsey Island.
Curious Museums to Discover
Uncover intriguing museums from every corner of the globe.