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Llechwedd Slate Caverns

Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd

Victorian slate caverns deep under a mountain.

Llechwedd was one of the great slate mines that roofed the world in Victorian times. Its Deep Mine tour takes visitors down Britain's steepest passenger railway into huge caverns, where miners worked by candlelight.

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When
From 1846
Where
53.0040, -3.9340
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

Open daily for tours.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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