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Dinorwic, or Dinorwig, small port with ry. sta. (Port Dinorwic), on Menai Strait, in co. and 2 miles NE. of Carnarvon; P.O., T.O., called Port Dinorwic; has extensive slate quarries, which maintain a considerable shipping traffic.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Feature Description: | "small port with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "harbors") |
Administrative units: | Caernarvonshire AncC |
Place names: | DINORWIC | DINORWIC OR DINORWIG | DINORWIG | PORT DINORWIC |
Place: | Dinorwic |
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