Llyn y Gadair Slate Quarry Page 5 (Remains Of The Welsh Slate Industry)

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* Llyn y Gadair Slate Quarry (Remains Of The Welsh Slate Industry) *

Llyn y Gadair Slate Quarry 16 - Sketch Map (1990)

Finally, a sketch map (definitely not to any scale) showing a plan of the quarries derived from my long time habit of scribbling notes on site visits.

The following recommended books contain a more comprehensive history of Llyn y Gadair:-

'Gazeteer of Slate Quarrying in Wales - Revised' / Alun John Richards / Llygad Gwalch

'Cwm Gwyrfai - The Quarries of the North Wales Narrow Gauge & the Welsh Highland Railways' / Gwynfor Pierce Jones & Alun John Richards / Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

'Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire: Vol I' / J.I.C.Boyd / Oakwood Press

'The Slate Railways of Wales' / Alun John Richards / Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

'The Slate Regions of North and Mid Wales' / Alun John Richards / Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Llyn y Gadair Online:-

Iain Robinsons Treasure Maps has a superb page devoted to their visit to Llyn y Gadair:-

Open: http://robinsonmaps.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Llyn-y-Gader%20slate%20quarry