Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, formerly understood in English as Port Dinorwic, is a town, area and also selecting ward close to the Menai Strait in 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 beginnings in 2 communities, Tafarngrisiau near St Mary's Church and 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 provided its name to the settlement. The area was largely farming up until the area was transformed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A new dock was built in 1828 when lime was removed at Brynadda and also slate and lime were loaded and culm (coal dust or anthracite slack) was generated to terminate the lime kilns. The proprietors of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, had a lot of the land in Y Felinheli and created the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They additionally developed the harbour to export slate carried to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a narrow scale railway that was ultimately replaced by the Padarn Railway. Industrial growth provided Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternate name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.