Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, formerly understood in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village, area as well as selecting ward close to the Menai Strait between Bangor and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The population of the town was 2,284 at the 2011 Census. Y Felinheli has its beginnings 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 rebuilt closer to the sea in 1633 and offered its name to the settlement. The area was mostly farming till the location was changed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A brand-new dock was built in 1828 when lime was drawn out at Brynadda and also slate and lime were filled and culm (coal dirt or anthracite slack) was brought in to terminate the lime kilns. The owners of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, owned a lot of the land in Y Felinheli and also created the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They also constructed the harbour to export slate delivered to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a narrow scale railway that was consequently replaced by the Padarn Railway. Industrial expansion provided Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternative name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.
