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Nant Gwrtheyrn

Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd

A quarry village in a hidden valley, said to be cursed by three monks.

In the 1860s a village was built at the bottom of a steep valley for workers at the granite quarries. When the quarries closed, it was slowly abandoned, and by 1959 it was empty.

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When
Abandoned by 1959
Where
52.9700, -4.4700
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Open to visitors, with a café and heritage centre. The road down is very steep.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

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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