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People have been integral to the slate landscape from the start. Come and hear the Local Voices. -
Come and learn more about the six areas that are part of the Slate Landscape. -
Protect, conserve, enhance and communicate the important qualities of the area in order to reinforce cultural distinctiveness and strengthen the Welsh language, and become an important driver for economic regeneration and social inclusion. -
Come and hear more from our Slate People. -
It is important that our young people take an interest in their rich culture and history and take pride in their unique heritage here in Gwynedd. -
There was a demand for good Welsh slate for buildings of all kinds across the world. Slates were used for workers' homes and for palaces, civic buildings, places of worship, banks, factories, and storehouses in ports.
Gwynedd Council, on behalf of several stakeholders, has developed a nomination to secure World Heritage Site Status for the Slate Landscape of North West Wales.
The Slate Landscape of North West Wales is located in Gwynedd and contains six key areas. The landscape tells the incredible story of the evolution of an upland agricultural society to one dominated by the slate industry; with towns, quarries and transport links carving their way through the Snowdonia mountains down towards the iconic ports.
The slate landscape of North West Wales allows a better insight and understanding of every stage of the quarrying industry than any other place in the world. The enormous quarries, deep pits, huge cavernous chambers and tips; processing mills, transport systems including steep inclines, roads, railways and ports, communities created for the workforce and the grand houses of the quarry owners; and the use of the final product around us everywhere.
Did you know? Workers from North West Wales travelled across the globe to work and share ideas and innovation.
The work undertaken by the LleCHI Project has been integral in raising awareness of how wonderful our slate communities are. There is a new energy and excitement in how we share…
National Slate MuseumI am very proud to have had the opportunity to contribute to this nomination, and would be delighted if it secured the World Heritage Site…
Llechi Young AmbassadorSlate quarried from mountain-slope and valley-floor, or mined from the bowels of the earth, hewn by sweat, blood and silicotic lungs, was the all-purpose material of our community… I believe the…
Chair of the Wales Slate Partnership Steering GroupWalking the paths and mountains of Snowdonia is one of my hobbies, and I regularly walk along these important landscapes. There is something unostentatious in walking the same…
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