Llanberis
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 7 ′ N , 4 ° 8 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 2026 (as of 2011) | ||
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| 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
- ↑ Llanberis (Ward). Key Figures for 2011 Census. Office for National Statistics , accessed April 19, 2014 .
- ^ Joan Thirsk (ed.): The Agrarian History of England and Wales , Vol. 4: 1500-1640 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1967. pp. 116f.
Web links
- Llanberis Development Group (English)