Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PORT-DINORWIG

PORT-DINORWIG, a sea-port village in Llanfairis-Gaer parish, Carnarvon; on Menai strait, adjacent to the Bangor and Carnarvon railway, and at the terminus of a railway from the Llanberis slate quarries, 3½ miles N N E of Carnarvon. It has a station on the B. andrailway, and a post-office‡ under Bangor; it serves for the embarkation of the slates from Llanberis; and it has a small harbour, with safe anchorage for about 120vessels of 200 tons burden.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a sea-port village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Caernarvonshire AncC
Place: Dinorwic

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