Caerbanciau

aka Caermeinciau

Slate Quarry
Worked from 1870s to 1880s

Jan 1st, 2024 from GWSI by Buddle-Bot

Nov 19th, 2025 by BertyBasset



Caerbanciau tip
North Wales
Llanberis
53.1186943, -4.1480875
SH 5634 6010
Open Access
240m
#1,251


No remains apart from spoil



The quarry was a small, entirely hand-worked site active in the 1870s and 1880s on the site of earlier workings. With no rail access, slate was likely carted to the Ffridd incline; in 1883 output was around three hundred tons with twelve men employed.


Publications (5)

  • (2000); WMS Newsletter Issue 43 Oct; 16 pages
  • Lindsay, Jean (1974); History of the North Wales Slate Industry; David & Charles; pp.312-313; ISBN 0-71536-264-X
  • Richards, Alun J. (2013); Slate Quarrying in Wales; Gwasg Carreg Gwalch; ISBN 1-84527-026-6
  • Richards, Alun John (1991); Gazeteer of the Welsh Slate Industry, A; Gwasg Carreg Gwalch 978-0863811968
  • Richards, Alun John, (1999); The Slate Regions of North and Mid Wales and their Railways; Gwasg Carreg Gwalch; 0863815620


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