Llanberis

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Llanberis
Llanberis in front of the Llyn Padarn
Llanberis in front of the Llyn Padarn
Coordinates 53 ° 7 ′  N , 4 ° 8 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 7 ′  N , 4 ° 8 ′  W
Llanberis (Wales)
Llanberis
Llanberis
Residents 2026 (as of 2011)
administration
Post town CAERNARFON
ZIP code section LL55
prefix 01286
Part of the country Wales
British Parliament Arfon
Welsh Parliament Arfon

Llanberis [ ɬanˈbɛrɪs ] is a village in Gwynedd , Wales . The place is immediately northwest of Snowdon on the banks of the Llyn Padarn lake . At the census in March 2011 it had 2,026 inhabitants.

For centuries, Llanberis was - as a traveler described it in 1693 - a small, poor hamlet that was difficult to reach . Today's place was created as a settlement for the workers in the surrounding slate quarries. A museum in Llanberis, the National Slate Museum on the former site of the Dinorwic quarry , commemorates this today.

Since the fall of the Welsh slate industry , the village has lived mainly from tourism. A large number of tourists come to the place either to take the cogwheel train to Snowdon or to hike up to it on foot. Another narrow-gauge railway is the Llanberis Lake Railway , which runs about four kilometers on the banks of the Llyn Padarn.

Residents of the village can also find employment in the large local pumped storage power plant in Dinorwig .

Individual evidence

  1. Llanberis (Ward). Key Figures for 2011 Census. Office for National Statistics , accessed April 19, 2014 .
  2. ^ Joan Thirsk (ed.): The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Vol. 4: 1500-1640 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1967. pp. 116f.

Web links

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