Garneddwen
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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 CorrisTemplate:Importance inline
Railway Station
Garneddwen railway station was a station on the former Corris Railway, a narrow gauge railway which ran from Template:Rws to Template:Rws.[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]Template:Rp and the track was lifted between Template:Rws and Template:Rws (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.
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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
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