Small pit with incline down to lake.**
Surviving features include the tipping run from the upper, older workings, a weighhouse, some small structures, and a bridge over the road. A blocked access tunnel leads to the lower working. On the waste bank, a row of seven dressing sheds remains, now reused, alongside the weighhouse and other buildings. The incline is still evident, and the pre-incline road descending towards the lake can still be traced.
Vaynol was a hillside pit whose acquisition by Assheton Smith and subsequent renaming allowed the Padarn Railway to follow a lakeside route. An incline serving the quarry was constructed after 1888, connecting it to the railway. The quarry was disused by 1912.
Publications (5)
- Gwyn, David, (2015); Welsh Slate: archaeology and history of an industry; Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales; 9781871184518
- 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; 0863815760
- Richards, Alun John, (2002); Fragments of Mine & Mill in Wales; pp.37 ; Gwasg Carreg Gwalch; 0863818129
