Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dinorwic, or Dinorwig

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))

Linked entities:
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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