Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, formerly understood in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village, area and also electoral ward close to the Menai Strait between Bangor and also Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The population of the village was 2,284 at the 2011 Census. Y Felinheli has its origins in two hamlets, 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 provided its name to the negotiation. The area was greatly farming until the location was transformed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A brand-new dock was integrated in 1828 when lime was extracted at Brynadda and slate as well as lime were packed as well as culm (coal dust or anthracite slack) was generated to fire the lime kilns. The proprietors of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, possessed the majority of the land in Y Felinheli and also established the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They likewise constructed the harbour to export slate delivered to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a slim gauge railway that was consequently changed by the Padarn Railway. Industrial expansion gave Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternative name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.
