{"id":4134,"date":"2019-09-11T21:06:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphimages.wpengine.com\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:34:33","slug":"dolgellau-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/dolgellau-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolgellau"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictures from a holiday in early July in the Welsh town of Dolgellau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The pier<\/a> at Bangor<\/a> (on a slightly roundabout route from Bradford to Dolgellau). Despite appearances, the pier stops someway short of crossing the Menai strait to the island of Anglesey<\/a> in the background.<\/p>\n

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The ruins of Cymer Abbey<\/a>, a small and never very prosperous Cistercian monastery, just outside Dolgellau.<\/p>\n

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The (L) cavernous interior and (R) quintessentially Victorian font at the parish church of Barmouth<\/a>. The church was completed in 1895 to accommodate the tourists that flocked to Barmouth when its railway opened in the 1860s.<\/p>\n

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(L) Views over the splendid Mawddach<\/a> estuary from the “New Precipice Walk<\/a>“, a trail that follows an old tramway from a former goldmine (Dolgellau had a small gold rush<\/a> in the 1850s). The original “Precipice Walk<\/a>“, further up the Mawddach valley, was a Victorian favourite. (R) Remains of a water wheel.<\/p>\n

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Views of the impressive Harlech Castle<\/a>, built by Edward I<\/a> between 1282 and 1289 as part of his campaign to conquer Wales.<\/p>\n

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View of Harlech<\/a> town.<\/p>\n

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Beach at the quirky coastal resort of Fairbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(L) The rail and pedestrian bridge across the Mawddach estuary at Barmouth, at the start of the Mawddach Trail<\/a>, which follows the route of the former Ruabon-Barmouth railway<\/a> between Barmouth and Dolgellau. (R) A rare surviving railway telegraph pole.<\/p>\n

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A signal post on the trail at Penmaenpool<\/a>, with its bridge across the estuary in the background.<\/p>\n

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Precarious looking staircase in a cavern mined out for slate, at the Llechwedd Slate Caverns<\/a>,\u00a0Blaenau Ffestiniog<\/a>. Blaenau and the surrounding area was deliberately excluded from the Snowdonia<\/a> National Park due its extensive slate mining industry and associated spoil heaps.<\/p>\n

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(L) Dolgoch Falls<\/a> and (R) locomotive on a run-around at the Talyllyn railway<\/a>, one of many narrow gauge railways built to transport slate from quarries to ports, in this case at Tywyn<\/a>. The Talyllyn railway was the first railway in the world to be preserved by volunteers (in 1951).<\/p>\n

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