Famed for its mountain landscape, cavernous mines, and railways that run through Gwnyedd, the region became the world leader for the production and export of slate in the 1800s....
Slate has been quarried in the area for over 1, 800 years and had been used to build parts of the Roman fort in Segontium in Caernarfon and King Edward I’s castle in Conwy.By the 1890s the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17, 000 workers and produced almost 500, 000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third o
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