Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, previously known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village, area as well as selecting ward beside the Menai Strait between Bangor and 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 communities, 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 rebuilt closer to the sea in 1633 and offered its name to the settlement. The location was mainly farming up until the area was transformed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A new dock was constructed in 1828 when lime was drawn out at Brynadda and slate and lime were loaded as well as culm (coal dust or anthracite slack) was brought in to discharge the lime kilns. The proprietors of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, owned most of the land in Y Felinheli as well as created the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They likewise built the harbour to export slate moved to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a slim gauge railway that was ultimately replaced by the Padarn Railway. Industrial development gave Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternate name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.
