In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Nantlle like this:
NANTLLE, a village in Carnarvonshire; on a lake and a railway of its own name, at the head of the river Llyfni, in a romantic and magnificent glen, under thewestern offshoots of Snowdon, 9 miles S S W of Carnarvon. It is the centre of a great quarrying and miningregion; and it has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Carnarvon. ...
The scenery around it is considerablydefaced by heaps of rubbish, and by smoke from slateworks, and from workmen's cottages; yet is always imposing, and, at the gathering of a storm, is profoundly impressive. The railway station used to serve for a greatextent of country to the S; but has been mainly superseded by the new lines from Carnarvon to Portmadoc, and from Portmadoc to Dinas and to Pwllheli.
Nantlle through time
Nantlle is now part of Gwynedd district. Click here for graphs and data of how Gwynedd has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Nantlle itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Nantlle, in Gwynedd and Caernarvonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21554
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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