- The
Dinorwig Power Station (/
dɪˈnɔːrwɪɡ/; Welsh: [
dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]),
known locally as
Electric Mountain, or
Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric...
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Dinorwig (/
dɪˈnɔːrwɪɡ/ din-OR-wig; ; Welsh: [
dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]),
historically spelled as
Dinorwic in English, is a
village located high
above Llyn Padarn, near...
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Dinorwic quarry (/
dɪˈnɔːrwɪɡ/ din-OR-wig; Welsh: [
dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]; also
known as
Dinorwig quarry) is a
large former slate quarry, now home to the
Welsh National...
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hamlet also
called Llanddeiniolen, and the
villages of Deiniolen, Bethel,
Dinorwig, Rhiwlas,
Brynrefail and ****arwaun. It is the third-largest community...
- Ffestiniog,
where the
slate was
mined rather than quarried.
Penrhyn and
Dinorwig were the two
largest slate quarries in the world, and the
Oakeley mine...
- Fawr,
Glyder Fach and Tryfan, is very po****r with
walkers and climbers.
Dinorwig Power Station, a
hydroelectric pump-storage system, is
located in a man-made...
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tribe is
preserved as the
element -orwig, -orweg in the
place name
Dinas Dinorwig ("Fort of the Ordovices") in
North Wales,
though Melville Richards rejected...
- po****tion of the
electoral ward was 1,909 as of 2011,
including nearby Dinorwig, with 81.2% of the po****tion
speaking Welsh. The community, Llanddeiniolen...
-
battle is unknown, but the fort of
Dinas Dinorwig is on a
foothill some 3 km from the
Menai Strait. The name
Dinorwig has been
supposed to mean "fort of the...
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areas with
little hydroelectricity,
pumped storage systems such as the
Dinorwig Power Station can
allow the
energy to be used for
operational reserve or...
