Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, previously recognized in English as Port Dinorwic, is a town, community as well as 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 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 reconstructed closer to the sea in 1633 as well as offered its name to the settlement. The location was largely agricultural up until the location was transformed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A brand-new dock was integrated in 1828 when lime was drawn out at Brynadda and also slate and also lime were loaded as well as culm (coal dirt or anthracite slack) was brought in to discharge the lime kilns. The owners of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, owned the majority of the land in Y Felinheli and also created the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They additionally built the harbour to export slate carried to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a narrow gauge train that was consequently replaced by the Padarn Railway. Industrial development provided Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the different name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.