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Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry

Gwynedd, United Kingdom · built 1862

Pen-yr-Orsedd quarry was a slate quarry in the Nantlle Valley in North Wales. It was one of the last slate quarries operating in North Wales and the last operating in the Nantlle Valley area, finally closing in 1979.

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