Nantlle Valley

53 025 - 4.2833333333333Koordinaten: 53 ° N, 4 ° W

The Nantlle Valley ( Welsh: Dyffryn Nantlle ) is a valley in the former District Arfon in Gwynedd, North Wales. About 80 % of the population speak Welsh as their first language. The valley takes its name from the small village of Nantlle on the northern shore of Llyn Nantlle Uchafs ( Upper Nantlle Lake).

General

In the Nantlle Valley is a large number of small towns that have arisen as a result of the slate in the late 18th and early 19th century. There were a number of quarries in the valley, whose products are now sold specifically for garden decoration. From 1865 to 1963 joined the Nantlle Railway, a horse-drawn railway, the quarries with customers. The train was later reactivated in parts for tourism. The Llyn Nantlle Isaf ( Lower Nantlle Lake) was drained and filled up because of the slate.

Sports

The 1970 flooded Dorothea Quarry ( Quarry ) has become an unofficial diving highlight, although there is no infrastructure and the diving is also banned there. The attraction for divers is the depth ( about 100 m) and the large number of flooded tunnels. In this dangerous underworld labyrinth alone have 1994-2004 21 divers lost their lives.

The Nantlle Ridge, a small mountain range in Snowdonia, has its beginning in the Nantlle Valley. These mountains are a popular mountaineering not very difficult hiking.

Mythology

In the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, (Math fab Mathonwy = " Math, the son Mathonwys " ) Llew Llaw Gyffes is wounded by Goronwy, as this will kill him for Blodeuwedd. He flees into the shape of an eagle in the Nantlle Valley, where he is found and healed by Gwydyon.