Garneddwen
Garneddwen
Garneddwen is located in Gwynedd
Garneddwen
Garneddwen
Location within Gwynedd
OS grid referenceSH763088
Community
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMACHYNLLETH
Postcode districtSY20
Dialling code01654
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament

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 :[2]

  • Llewelyn Robert (born 1856)
  • Arthur Edward (1857–1918), who married future author Molly Thomas in 1897
  • Charles Ernest (born 1859)
  • Alfred William (1861–1900) Professor of Anatomy and Dean of the Faculty of King's College London, whose monument stands on the outskirts of Corris

Railway Station

Garneddwen railway station was a station on the former Corris Railway, a narrow gauge railway which ran from Aberllefenni to Machynlleth.[3] The station was open from 25 August 1887,[4] until the end of passenger services, in December 1930. The Corris Railway closed completely on 20 August 1948,[5]: 7  and the track was lifted between Aberllefenni and Corris (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.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Corris   Corris Railway   Aberllefenni

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.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Powys-land Club (1874). Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders. The Club.
  2. ↑ M.V.Hughes "A London Girl of the 1880s" (1936)
  3. ↑ Corris Railway Society "A Return to Corris" (1988)
  4. ↑ Boyd, James I.C. (1965). Narrow Gauge Railways in Mid Wales. The Oakwood Press. pp. 24–25.
  5. ↑ The Corris Railway Society (2009). "The Corris Railway – 1859 to 1948". Corris Railway – Guidebook & Stocklist. Template Printing (Nottingham) Limited.
  6. ↑ Geological Society of London (1928). The Quarterly Journal.


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