Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, formerly known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a town, area and also selecting ward next to the Menai Strait in 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 beginnings in two hamlets, Tafarngrisiau near St Mary's Church and Aberpwll to the north-east where there was a mill on the Afon Heulyn. The mill was rebuilt closer to the sea in 1633 as well as provided its name to the negotiation. The area was greatly agricultural until the location was transformed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A new dock was built in 1828 when lime was drawn out at Brynadda as well as slate and lime were loaded and also culm (coal dust or anthracite slack) was generated to terminate the lime kilns. The owners of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, owned a lot of the land in Y Felinheli as well as developed 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 scale train that was consequently replaced by the Padarn Railway. Industrial expansion gave Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternate name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.