The Llechwedd Slate Caverns offer tramway tours with former miners as guides into the subterranean heart of darkness where once 19th-century men and boys worked in appalling and dangerous conditions digging out slate to roof the industrial and domestic world. ... Sygun Fawr Country House is a charming, affordable hotel well located for all Snowdonia's attractions. including its steam train and mine attractions: www.sygunfawr.co.uk. ? Useful sites on the Web: ...
The plan was to walk along the track on the other side of the Afon Llechwedd-mawr but the river was too deep and fast flowing to get across without a partial strip. I therefore followed the river north and was soon stumbling my way ...
the most beautiful place was the victorian bestate/b we arrived at to help restore by clearing rhododendrons. as we headed up the mountain, saw or cutter in hand, i was shocked at the beauty of this ancient wood. ...
