Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, formerly understood in English as Port Dinorwic, is a town, area and also electoral ward next to the Menai Strait between Bangor and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The population of the town was 2,284 at the 2011 Census. Y Felinheli has its origins in two hamlets, Tafarngrisiau near St Mary's Church and also Aberpwll to the north-east where there was a mill on the Afon Heulyn. The mill was rebuilt closer to the sea in 1633 and provided its name to the settlement. The location was greatly farming up until the location was transformed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A new dock was integrated in 1828 when lime was drawn out at Brynadda as well as slate and lime were loaded and culm (coal dust or anthracite slack) was brought in to fire the lime kilns. The owners of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, had most of the land in Y Felinheli and also developed the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They also developed the harbour to export slate delivered to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a slim gauge railway that was subsequently changed by the Padarn Railway. Industrial expansion offered Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternative name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.
