Slate Landscape
The Slate Landscape is extends across much of Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, where the slate of the hills has been quarried for centuries. At first the slate was hewn by hand and then as the Industrial Revolution transformed working, huge quarries were worked by blasting and machines, forminga distinctive landscape.
In 2021, 'The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales' was enrolled by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.[1] It was chosen as the landscape illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about in the traditional rural environment of the mountains and valleys of the Snowdon massif.
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The areas included in the designation include Penrhyn quarry and the Ogwen Valley, Nantlle Valley, Gorseddau and Prince of Wales quarries, Ffestiniog and Porthmadog, including the Ffestiniog Railway, and Abergynolwyn and Bryn Eglwys quarry, including the Talyllyn Railway.
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Bath • Blaenavon Industrial Landscape • Blenheim Palace • Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey & St. Martin's Church • Castles and Town Walls of King Edward I • Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape • Derwent Valley Mills • Durham Castle & Cathedral • Edinburgh Old Town & New Town • Flow Country • Forth Bridge • Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Antonine Wall & Hadrian's Wall • Giant's Causeway • Ironbridge Gorge • Jodrell Bank • Jurassic Coast • Kew Gardens • Lake District • Maritime Greenwich • New Lanark • Heart of Neolithic Orkney • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct • St Kilda • Saltaire • Slate Landscape • Stonehenge, Avebury & Associated Sites • Studley Royal Park & Fountains Abbey • Tower of London • Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey & St Margaret's Church |
- ↑ "Wales' slate landscape wins World Heritage status". BBC News. 28 July 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57986167.