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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BANGOR	Caernarvonshire	quarries 6 miles distant, and brought on a railway to Port Penrhyn, at the mouth of the Cegid, and from another quarry to a newly formed shipping-place at Garth. Port-Penrhyn has a quay upwards of 300 yards long, and is accessible at all states of the tide, by vessels of from 200 to 300 tons; and adjacent to it is a good building, with hot and cold sea-water baths. A manufacture of slates	Imperial
  Carnarvonshire	Caernarvonshire	Slate is extensively quarried at Penrhyn, Llanberis, and Bethesda. The co. comprises 10 hundreds, 74 pars., with part of 1 other	Bartholomew
  CARNARVONSHIRE	Caernarvonshire	slate and other schists. Old red sandstone appears on the coast from Conway to Bangor,-also in Braich-y-Pwll; and carboniferous limestone appears in Orme's Head, and in a strip along part of the Menai strait. Copper, lead, and zinc, are worked; roofing slates, in vast quantities, are quarried; and mill-stone and ochre are found. Not more than 8,000 acres are in tillage; rather more than half the entire area is enclosed pasture; and the rest is either waste, or can be depastured only in the summer months. Wheat is grown in a few fertile spots	Imperial
  LLANBERIS	Caernarvonshire	slate quarries and the mines, and by poaching on the part of the quarrymen. Dolbadarn Castle has already been noticed in its own alphabetical place. Dinorwig slate quarries are the most extensive in Wales, excepting those of Penrhyn	Imperial
  LLANDEGAI	Caernarvonshire	slate quarries. Nearly all the property belongs to the Pennant family. Penrhyn Castle and Penrhyn slate quarries are very prominent	Imperial
  LLANLLECHID	Caernarvonshire	quarries, and £60 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851,5,948; in 1861,7,346. Houses, 1,561. The increase of pop. arose from the extension of slate and stone quarrying. The property is divided among a few. Cochwillan was the birth place of Bishop Williams, and the residence of Archbishop Williams. The surface runs up the northern offshoots of Snowdonia, and includes Carnedd Llewelyn and Carnedd Davydd, which have altitudes of 3,469 and 3,427 feet. The slate quarries are similar to the neighbouring ones of Penrhyn	Imperial
  OGWEN (The)	Caernarvonshire	Ogwen Bank, a seat of the Pennants, takes name from it; and the slate quarries of Penrhyn are near it.	Imperial
  PENRHYN	Caernarvonshire	Penrhyn, at a cost of about £500,000; is of Mona marble, in the Norman castellated style, withtowers and turrets; includes a tall square donjon tower, five stories high, copied from Rochester castle; contains a drinking-horn of Piers Gruffydd, who was at the Armada with Drake; stands on an eminence embowered in trees; presents a very imposing aspect, as seen at adistance; and has very extensive offices, and a park ofabout 7 miles in circuit. Penrhyn slate quarries	Imperial
  Penrhyn Slate Quarries	Caernarvonshire	Slate Quarries , Carnarvonshire, in 8. vicinity of Bethesda; the quarries are very extensive, giving employment to several thousand hands, and the slate is conveyed to Pert Penrhyn	Bartholomew
  Port Penrhyn	Caernarvonshire	Penrhyn , on N. coast of Carnarvonshire, beside Bangor, of which it is the harbour; the slate from the Penrhyn quarries	Bartholomew

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