Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DINORWIC, or Dinorwig

DINORWIC, or Dinorwig, a small port in Llanddeiniolen parish, Carnarvonshire; on the Menai strait, near the Carnarvon railway, 2 miles NNE of Carnarvon. It has a r. station; and a railway, 9 miles long, goes from it to a great slate quarry.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a small port"   (ADL Feature Type: "harbors")
Administrative units: Llanddeiniolen CP/AP       Caernarvonshire AncC
Place names: DINORWIC     |     DINORWIC OR DINORWIG     |     DINORWIG
Place: Dinorwic

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