Visitor
Tourist Information - In this section we have tried to provide some really useful practical information that you may find useful if you plan to visit the Ffestiniog area.
The section includes:-
- Getting here - Information about how to get here including a link to an online map and direction finder.
- Things to do - General information about the area and things to do during your visit.
- Diary - Whats on in Ffestiniog
- Links and Contacts
Getting Here
- By Bus - From Monday to Saturday there are hourly buses from Caernarfon to Blaenau Ffestiniog (1½ hours). There are also services to Harlech, Barmouth and Pwllheli. Bus No 35 goes to Dolgellau three times a day, Monday to Saturday.
- By Train - The Conwy Valley line goes from Llandudno or Llandudno Junction via Betws- y-Coed to Blaenau Ffestiniog, six times a day, Monday to Saturday (35 minutes). From Porthmadog there's the Ffestiniog Railway. For information on all train services please telephone (0845) 7484950 or link to www.railtrack.co.uk
- By Car - From the North West, the M56 and A55 whisk you into the heart of North Wales. Motorway links from the Midlands are also first class along the M6/M5/M1.
Click here for an online map and directions
| Ref number: |
HLW (Gw) 3 |
| Index map no.: |
21 |
| OS map: |
Landranger 115, 124 |
| Former county: |
Gwynedd |
| Unitary authority: |
Gwynedd |
| Principal area designations: |
The south western part of the area is within the Snowdonia National Park. |
| Criteria: |
2 |
| Contents and significance: |
The foremost slate mining and quarrying landscape in Wales, sited in an elevated natural basin and its tributary valleys in south Snowdonia, containing an undisputed wealth of industrial archaeological remains comprising visually imposing and extensive slate quarry and mine workings, waste tips, associated buildings, transport systems and settlements dating from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. The area also includes the Tanygrisiau hydro-electric pumped storage scheme, the first of itsind in Britain. |
