In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dinorwic like this:
PORT-DINORWIG, a sea-port village in Llanfairis-Gaer parish, Carnarvon; on Menai strait, adjacent to the Bangor and Carnarvon railway, and at the terminus of a railway from the Llanberis slate quarries, 3½ miles N N E of Carnarvon. It has a station on the B. andrailway, and a post-office‡ under Bangor; it serves for the embarkation of the slates from Llanberis; and it has a small harbour, with safe anchorage for about 120vessels of 200 tons burden.
Dinorwic through time
Dinorwic is now part of Gwynedd district. Click here for graphs and data of how Gwynedd has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dinorwic itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dinorwic, in Gwynedd and Caernarvonshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23127
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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