Conservatory Blinds in Y Felinheli

Y Felinheli

Y Felinheli, previously known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village, neighborhood and also electoral ward beside the Menai Strait in between Bangor and also Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The population of the town was 2,284 at the 2011 Census. Y Felinheli has its beginnings in two districts, Tafarngrisiau near St Mary's Church as well as Aberpwll to the north-east where there was a mill on the Afon Heulyn. The mill was reconstructed closer to the sea in 1633 and also gave its name to the settlement. The location was mainly farming until the area was changed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A new dock was constructed in 1828 when lime was removed at Brynadda and also slate and lime were loaded and culm (coal dust or anthracite slack) was brought in to discharge the lime kilns. The owners of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, had the majority of the land in Y Felinheli as well as established the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They also constructed the harbour to export slate delivered to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a narrow gauge train that was subsequently changed by the Padarn Railway. Industrial expansion offered Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternative name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.