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TOP SEVEN INDUSTRIAL HILL RUINS

01 CWMORTHIN SPOIL HEAPS, GWYNEDD

ith the slate of its old waste tips piled up like the scales of a sleeping dinosaur, this quarry near the village of Tanygrisiau needs to be seen to be believed. Other remnants of the busy life that once existed

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