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Y man gollwng ar y domen lechi / The slate tip's tipping point [1]
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
Built up so the wagon can tip up. Waste slate from Chwarel Fawr [Cefn Du] was... (more)
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Diwedd y domen lechi / the end of the slate tip
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
The tipping point on one of the slate tips on the south side of Cefn Du. Waste... (more)
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Y man gollwng ar y domen lechi / The slate tip's tipping point [2]
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5459
Built up so the wagon can tip up. Waste slate from Chwarel Fawr [Cefn Du] was... (more)
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Cyffordd ar y domen lechi / Junction on the slate tip
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5459
Waste slate from Chwarel Fawr [Cefn Du] was dumped here off the end of each tip.... (more)
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Diwedd y domen llechen hir / The end of the long slate tip
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
Built up so the wagon can tip up. Waste slate from Chwarel Fawr [Cefn Du] was... (more)
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Hen dramffordd ddiwydiannol / former industrial tramway
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
One of the tongues of slate on the south side of Cefn Du. Waste slate from... (more)
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Slate tip on the south side of the road to Tanyrallt
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH4952
Spoil from a long-closed quarry, slowly greening over.
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Slate tip on the north side of the road to Tanyrallt
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH4952
Spoil from a long-closed quarry, slowly greening over.
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Slate tip overlooking Blaenau Ffestiniog
by Andrew Hill
geograph for square SH7046
There are many natural rocky outcrops in the dramatic landscape around the town,... (more)
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Slate tip, Rhosydd Quarry
by Philip Halling
geograph for square SH6646
The course of a former tramway which transported waste slate from Rhosydd Quarry... (more)
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Coeden binwydd ar y domen lechi / Pine tree on the slate tip
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
Small conifers are beginning to colonise the slate tips of Chwarel Fawr [Cefn Du].
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Coeden ar y domen lechi / Tree on the slate tip
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
It's common enough to see small conifers growing on the Chwarel Fawr [Cefn... (more)
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Planhigion ar y llechen wastraff / Plants on the waste slate
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5459
Or are those grey-green cushions lichen? On one of the slate tips at Chwarel... (more)
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Stream and slate tip at Glandwr
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5055
Grass is slowly covering the small waste tip. The stream is a tributary of Afon Llifon.
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Slate tip, Rhosydd Quarry
by Philip Halling
geograph for square SH6646
The course of a former tramway which used to carry waste slate from Rhosydd Quarry.
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Tair tomen llechi / Three slate tips
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
The one in the foreground had a tramway mapped in 1888 and 1899, but not in... (more)
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Yr hen ffordd o Lanberis / The old road from Llanberis
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5459
Seen from the slate tip alongside.
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Autumn bracken, on the hillside west of Tanyrallt
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH4852
As the valley side steepens, it changes from pasture to bracken and trees. The... (more)
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Beware of falling rocks on the way to Tanyrallt
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH4952
There are disused slate tips on both sides of the road.
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Disused tip, Moelfre Quarries
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5245
Above and west of Pont Gyfyng.
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Olion y diwydiant llechi / Remains of the slate industry
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SH5460
Waste slate on Cefn Du.
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Footpath by the slate quarries
by Andrew Hill
geograph for square SH7046
Yellow topped poles mark the route, here using an old track or incline just for... (more)
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A corner of a slate mining town
by Andrew Hill
geograph for square SH7045
Terraced houses in Blaenau Ffestiniog with natural and slate-strewn hillsides above.
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Lôn Las Ogwen
by Ian Taylor
geograph for square SH6263
The Lôn Las Ogwen cycle path approaches Penrhyn Quarry, at the bottom end of... (more)
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Penrhyn Quarry spoil heaps
by Ian Taylor
geograph for square SH6264
The Lôn Las Ogwen cycle path skirts around the spoil heaps of the slate quarry,... (more)
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Above Blaenau Ffestiniog
by Andrew Hill
geograph for square SH7046
View from the track climbing to the Maenofferen slate quarries.
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