Fronlog

aka Fronheulog

Slate Quarry
Worked from 1840 to WW2

Jan 1st, 2024 from GWSI by Buddle-Bot

Nov 17th, 2025 by BertyBasset



Fronlog tip from Nant y Fron
North Wales
Llanllyfni
53.0411606, -4.2552037
SH 4890 5170
Private Land
190m
#1,284


Two small pits, reworked in 1980s for green slates.**

The site contains a small modern shed housing a locally built diamond-sawing machine, representing a modest concession to contemporary technology. More characteristic of the quarry’s improvised character is a sawing machine ingeniously constructed on the bed of an old lathe. Warehouse-style weighing machines are also present, once used for handling and dispatching the finished slate products.



Fronheulog is a small hillside working that was formerly part of the Tan-y-Allt operation. It was actively worked on a very small scale during the 1990s, using extremely traditional techniques—essentially pre-19th-century crow-bar methods for levering slate from the rock face, a practice that had scarcely changed in over two centuries. The quarry now appears to be dormant.


Publications (3)

  • 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; 0863815792


Fronlog tip from Nant y Fron



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