Garneddwen Explained

Country:Wales
Official Name:Garneddwen
Coordinates:52.662°N -3.829°W
Static Image Name:Garneddwen - geograph.org.uk - 213903.jpg
Static Image Caption:Garneddwen
Community Wales:Corris
Unitary Wales:Gwynedd
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Constituency Westminster:Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Post Town:MACHYNLLETH
Postcode District:SY20
Postcode Area:SY
Dial Code:01654
Os Grid Reference:SH763088

Garneddwen (also known as Garnedd-Wen; English: white [[cairn]]) is a hamlet in the south of the county of Gwynedd, Wales. It lies in the historic county of Merionethshire/Sir Feirionnydd, in the valley of the Afon Dulas.

It consists primarily of a single row of terraced houses, built for the workers at Aberllefenni Slate Quarry. The hamlet was named after a large cairn ("carnedd" in Welsh) that was to be found in a field below the farm of the same name up to Victorian times.[1]

History

Sarn Helen, a Roman road which connected the north and south parts of Roman Wales, probably ran through the hamlet.

Nearby is Fronwen, built as a family home by the quarry manager Robert Hughes (1813–1882) and his wife Jane née Deakin (1822–1906). They had four sons who were born in this house :

Railway Station

Garneddwen railway station was a station on the former Corris Railway, a narrow gauge railway which ran from to . The station was open from 25 August 1887,[2] until the end of passenger services, in December 1930. The Corris Railway closed completely on 20 August 1948,[3] and the track was lifted between and (through Garneddwen, which lies in the middle) in November 1948. The former railway's trackbed at Garneddwen is now an access road for the hamlet.

Geology

The hamlet gives its name to the Garnedd-Wen Formation, a thick rock strata that runs from Tywyn to Dinas Mawddwy and was first identified close by the settlement.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Powys-land Club. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders. 1874. The Club.
  2. Book: Boyd, James I.C. . Narrow Gauge Railways in Mid Wales . 1965 . James I. C. Boyd . The Oakwood Press . 24–25.
  3. Book: The Corris Railway Society . Corris Railway Society . Corris Railway – Guidebook & Stocklist . 2009 . Template Printing (Nottingham) Limited . en-gb . The Corris Railway – 1859 to 1948.
  4. Book: Geological Society of London. The Quarterly Journal. 1928.