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Llanberis is also a centre for outdoor activities including walking, mountaineering, climbing, mountain biking, pony trekking, water sports and Scuba Diving at the Vivian diving centre.
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Caernarfon is situated South West of Bangor, North of Porthmadog and approximately east of Llanberis and Snowdonia National Park.
The Dinorwig Power Station (; ) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales.
Llanberis is a village in Gwynedd, North Wales, lying on the southern banks of Llyn Padarn in Snowdonia.
Llanberis is a popular base for ascents of Snowdon ( Yr Wyddfa in Welsh ), the highest mountain in Wales and England.
The Llanberis Path begins in the village, and although one of the longest routes, it is therefore the shallowest and hence the easiest.
LLMRT, Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team is one of the busiest mountain rescue teams in the country with 90 call outs in 2008.
Llanberis is twinned with the Italian town of Morbegno in Lombardy.
It is at the junction of the A5 road from Bangor and Bethesda to Betws-y-Coed with the A4086 road from Caernarfon, Llanberis, Pen-y-Pass and Pen-y-Gwryd.
Snowdon is climbed from Pen-y-Pass, although an alternative descent leads to Llanberis, and takes an additional 15 minutes.
* Dinorwig Power Station, Llanberis, United Kingdom, built in 1984, is a pumped-storage system, delivering 1, 650 MW to Wales and the north-west of England.
To the north is the Llanberis Pass.
The Llanberis Lake Railway () is a narrow gauge heritage railway that runs for along the northern shore of Llyn Padarn in north Wales in the Snowdonia National Park.
The starting point is the town of Llanberis at the eastern end of the lake (), with the western terminus at Pen Llyn in the Padarn Country Park ().
From Llanberis, the mountain is dominated by the former Dinorwic slate quarries and the waste they have left behind.
The Deiniolen walk provides views down to Llanberis, while the Nant Peris approach is short and quite steep.
There is also a car park at the foot of the Llanberis Pass at Nant Peris as well as others in Llanberis village and there is a park and ride bus service to Pen-y-pass car park, which is the hub of the year round Sherpa bus service provided by Arriva Buses Wales and Padarn Bus.
It is unclear where Owain was imprisoned, but some scholars believe he was kept in Dolbadarn Castle near Llanberis.
Dolbadarn Castle is a fortification built by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great during the early 13th century, at the base of the Llanberis Pass, in North Wales.
It is located at the junction of the A4086 from Capel Curig to Llanberis and Caernarfon and the A498 from Beddgelert and Nant Gwynant about a mile from the head of the Llanberis Pass, and is the site of the Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel.
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The summit can also be reached on the Snowdon Mountain Railway, a rack and pinion railway opened in 1896 which carries passengers the from Llanberis to the summit station.
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Dolbadarn built for the Dinorwic Quarry | Dinorwic Slate Quarries in 1922 and now on the Llanberis Lake Railway
In 1870, Hunslet constructed their first narrow gauge engine Dinorwic, a diminutive gauge 0-4-0 saddle tank for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis.
Thomas Bach pulling out of Gilfach Du with a train for Llanberis
On the return journey from Pen Llyn, passengers may stop off at the Cei Llydan station for a picnic and a chance to enjoy the magnificent views of the Snowdonian mountains above Llanberis Pass.
When the Quarry closed down in 1969 the lakeside section of the trackbed was utilised for the current Llanberis Lake Railway, originally running from the National Slate Museum at Gilfach Ddu to Pen Llyn.
The Pen-y-Gwryd Hotel was originally a simple farmhouse dating from 1811 and would become an Inn under the auspices of a John Roberts from Llanberis, who eventually sold the Inn ( c1840 ) and left for America.
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* 1868-Isle of Man, Holyhead North Wales including Llanberis.
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In 1986 He moved to Llanberis in North Wales, climbing extensively on the slate of the Llanberis quarries and on the sea cliffs at Gogarth.
* DMM International Ltd, manufacturer of climbing equipment based in Llanberis, Wales.
Good quality sport climbing on limestone is available at Llandudno and on slate at the quarries in Llanberis and Dinorwic.
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* Llanberis Mountain Rescue-Online home of the country's busiest mountain rescue team
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Llanberis at the foot of Mount Snowdon can be reached via the A4086 which heads East out of the town to Capel Curig.
* Alice ( locomotive ), a Hunslet 0-4-0 &# 160 ; ST, used to work in the Dinorwic slate quarries at Llanberis, in North Wales
In July 1966, A. Lowry Porter of Southend-on-Sea proposed a shorter railway running from the quarry company's workshops at Gilfach Ddu near Llanberis to Penllyn, along the eastern-most three miles of Padarn Railway trackbed.
Situated at the high point of the Llanberis Pass at an altitude of, the road here was built in the 1830s to allow ore from the mines on Snowdon to be transported to Llanberis.
The Llanberis pass road extends beyond Pen-y-Pass to join the Beddgelert to Capel Curig road at the Pen-y-Gwryd hotel.
Dolbadarn Castle was built in either the 1220s or the 1230s by Llywelyn the Great, at the base of the Llanberis Pass, overlooking the lake of Llyn Padarn in North Wales.
A variety of slate waggons preserved at the National Slate Museum, Llanberis
A Penrhyn Quarry slab waggon, now preserved at the National Slate Museum, Llanberis
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The local court serves the town and the rest of North West Wales, and in 2009 moved to a multi-million pound court complex on Llanberis Road.
The old court buildings, replaced in 2009 by a new complex designed by HOK on the former Segontium School site in Llanberis Road, are situated inside the castle walls, next door to the Anglesey Arms Hotel and to the Gwynedd County Council Buildings in Pendeitch.
The site served as the terminus of the Bangor and Carnarvon Railway, and an end-on junction with the Carnarvonshire Railway and the Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway.
A Saturday service has been introduced by Padarn Bus X2 that runs direct between Penmaenmawr and Llandudno eastbound and runs towards Llanberis via Bangor, Gwynedd westbound.
Llanberis seen from the bottom of Llanberis Path.
According to the United Kingdom Census 2001, the population of Llanberis was 1, 954.
Other attractions in the village include the Snowdon Mountain Railway, the National Slate Museum, the Llanberis Lake Railway and Padarn country park.
LLAMFF, the Llanberis Mountain Film Festival began in 2004.
The village used to be served by Llanberis railway station on a branch line of the Carnarvonshire Railway until its closure in 1964.
Bus services to Llanberis are provided mainly by Padarn Bus, who are based in the village, and include a number of open-top routes.
* www. geograph. co. uk: photos of Llanberis and surrounding area
Capel Curig takes its name from the little Saint Julitta's Church in the ancient graveyard by the river bridge on the Llanberis road.
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