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Slate industry in Wales, the Glossary

The existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon.^[1]

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Aberdyfi

Aberdyfi, also known as Aberdovey, is a village and community in Gwynedd, Wales, located on the northern side of the estuary of the River Dyfi.

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Abergynolwyn (Mouth of the River with a Whirlpool) is a village in southern Gwynedd, Wales, located at the confluence of the Nant Gwernol and the Afon Dysynni. Slate industry in Wales and Abergynolwyn are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Aberllefenni quarries

Aberllefenni quarry is the collective name of three slate quarries, Foel Grochan, Hen Gloddfa (also known as Hen Chwarel) and Ceunant Ddu, located in Cwm Hengae, just to the west of Aberllefenni, Gwynedd, North Wales.

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Aled Eames

Aled Eames (29 July 1921 – 7 March 1996) was a Welsh historian and author.

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Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Bangor, Gwynedd

Bangor is a cathedral city and community in Gwynedd, North Wales.

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Baron Penrhyn

Baron Penrhyn is a title that has been created twice.

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Beaumaris

Beaumaris (Biwmares) is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, of which it is the former county town of Anglesey.

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Bethesda, Gwynedd

Bethesda is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Betws-y-Coed

Betws-y-Coed (meaning 'prayer-house in the woods') is a village and community in the Conwy valley in Conwy County Borough, Wales, located in the historic county of Caernarfonshire, right on the boundary with Denbighshire, in the Gwydir Forest.

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Billiard table

A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played.

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Blaenau Ffestiniog

Blaenau Ffestiniog is a town in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Braichgoch slate mine

Braichgoch slate mine (often called Braich Goch quarry) was a large slate mine located in Corris Uchaf, north Wales. It operated continuously from 1787 until its closure in 1970 (some sources give 1971), apart from a hiatus in the 1900s. Most of the surface workings of the quarry were removed as part of a road widening and landscaping scheme in 1983.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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Bryn Eglwys quarry

Bryn Eglwys quarry was a slate quarry and mine near Abergynolwyn, in Merionethshire (now part of Gwynedd), Wales. Slate industry in Wales and Bryn Eglwys quarry are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Cable railway

A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains.

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Caernarfon

Caernarfon is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Cambrian

The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Canals of the United Kingdom

The canals of the United Kingdom are a major part of the network of inland waterways in the United Kingdom.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city of Wales.

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Centre for Alternative Technology

The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) (Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen) is an eco-centre in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development.

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Cilgwyn quarry

Cilgwyn quarry is a slate quarry located on the north edge of the Nantlle Vale, in North Wales.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Corris

Corris is a village in the county of Gwynedd, Wales, about north of the town of Machynlleth.

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Corris Railway

The Corris Railway (Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and Montgomeryshire (now Powys) in Mid-Wales.

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Criccieth

Criccieth, also spelled Cricieth, is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales, on the boundary between the Llŷn Peninsula and Eifionydd.

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Dandy waggon

The dandy waggon is a type of railway carriage used to carry horses on gravity trains.

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De Winton

De Winton & Co (1854–1901) were engineers in Caernarfon, Wales.

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Dean (Christianity)

A dean, in an ecclesiastical context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy.

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Denbigh

Denbigh (Dinbych) is a market town and a community in Denbighshire, Wales.

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Dictionary of Welsh Biography

The Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) (also The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 and The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941 to 1970) is a biographical dictionary of Welsh people who have made a significant contribution to Welsh life over seventeen centuries.

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Dinorwic quarry

Dinorwic quarry (also known as Dinorwig quarry) is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig (formerly Dinorwic) in Wales. Slate industry in Wales and Dinorwic quarry are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Dinorwig Power Station

The Dinorwig Power Station, known locally as Electric Mountain, or Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales.

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Diphwys Casson quarry

Diphwys Casson quarry (sometimes known as Diphwys quarry or Diffwys quarry) was a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, North Wales.

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Disestablishmentarianism

Disestablishmentarianism is a movement to end the Church of England's status as an official church of the United Kingdom.

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Dorothea quarry

Dorothea quarry is a disused slate quarry in the Nantlle Valley area in North Wales.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Dyffryn Ogwen

Dyffryn Ogwen, or Ogwen Valley, is a valley mostly located in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. Slate industry in Wales and Dyffryn Ogwen are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn

Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (20 June 1800 – 31 March 1886), was a Scottish landowner in Wales and Jamaica, and a Conservative Party politician.

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Eisteddfod

In Welsh culture, an eisteddfod is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music.

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Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge.

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Ffestiniog

Ffestiniog is a community in Gwynedd, Wales, containing several villages, in particular the settlements of Llan Ffestiniog and Blaenau Ffestiniog. Slate industry in Wales and Ffestiniog are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Ffestiniog Railway

The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a heritage railway based on narrow-gauge, located in Gwynedd, Wales. Slate industry in Wales and Ffestiniog Railway are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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The foot (standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

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George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn

George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn (30 September 1836 – 10 March 1907), was a landowner who played a prominent part in the Welsh slate industry as the owner of the Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Gilfach Ddu

Gilfach Ddu (also known as the Dinorwic Slate Quarry Workshops) are a series of well preserved Grade I listed industrial buildings built to serve the Dinorwic slate quarry near Llanberis in Caernarfonshire, North Wales.

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Global Heritage Stone Resource

The Global Heritage Stone Resource (GHSR) designation seeks international recognition of natural stone resources that have achieved widespread utilisation in human culture.

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Glogue

Glogue is a hamlet and post town, north of Llanfyrnach, in the community of Crymych in the east of the county of Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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Graig Ddu quarry

Graig Ddu quarry (also known as Craig Ddu quarry, Manod quarry, or, since the closure of the nearby Cwt y Bugail quarry, Cwt y Bugail quarry) is a disused slate quarry near Blaenau Ffestiniog (formerly Blaenau Festiniog), in Gwynedd (formerly Merioneth or Merionethshire), North Wales.

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Gravestone

A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Great fire of Hamburg

The great fire of Hamburg began early on May 5, 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of May 8, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt.

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Guto'r Glyn

Guto'r Glyn (c. 1412 – c. 1493) was a Welsh language poet and soldier of the era of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr ("Poets of the Nobility") or Cywyddwyr ("cywydd-men"), the itinerant professional poets of the later Middle Ages.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Hydropower

Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.

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Industrial Revolution in Wales

The Industrial Revolution in Wales was the adoption and developments of new technologies in Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries as part of the Industrial Revolution, resulting in increases in the scale of industry in Wales. Slate industry in Wales and Industrial Revolution in Wales are industrial history of Wales.

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International Union of Geological Sciences

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of geology.

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John Whitehead Greaves

John Whitehead Greaves (21 June 1807 – 12 February 1880) was an English businessman who was instrumental in developing the slate industry in Wales.

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Kate Roberts (13 February 1891 – 14 April 1985) was one of the foremost Welsh-language authors of the 20th century.

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King Arthur

King Arthur (Brenin Arthur, Arthur Gernow, Roue Arzhur, Roi Arthur), according to legends, was a king of Britain.

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Labor relations

Labor relations or labor studies is a field of study that can have different meanings depending on the context in which it is used.

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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Line shaft

A line shaft is a power-driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century.

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Llanberis

italic is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake italic and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.

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Llangollen

Llangollen is a town and community, situated on the River Dee, in Denbighshire, Wales.

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Llechwedd quarry

Llechwedd quarry is a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales.

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Llechwedd Slate Caverns

Llechwedd is a visitor attraction near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales.

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Llwyngwern quarry

The Llwyngwern quarry (sometimes known as Glandulas quarry or Maglona quarry) was a slate quarry in Wales that opened by 1828 and continued working until about 1950.

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Lockout (industry)

A lockout is a work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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Machynlleth

Machynlleth is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire.

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Maentwrog

Maentwrog is a village and community in the Welsh county of Merionethshire (now part of Gwynedd), lying in the Vale of Ffestiniog just below Blaenau Ffestiniog, within the Snowdonia National Park.

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Mechanization

Mechanization (or mechanisation) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery.

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Menai Strait

The Menai Strait is a strait which separates the island of Anglesey from Gwynedd, on the mainland of Wales.

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Minutes

Minutes, also known as minutes of meeting (abbreviation MoM), protocols or, informally, notes, are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing.

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Nantlle Railway

The Nantlle Railway (or Nantlle Tramway) was a Welsh narrow gauge railway.

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Nantlle Valley

The Nantlle Valley (Dyffryn Nantlle) is an area in Gwynedd, North Wales, characterised by its numerous small settlements. Slate industry in Wales and Nantlle Valley are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than.

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National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.

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National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru), in Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.

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National Slate Museum

The National Slate Museum (previously known as the Welsh Slate Museum and the North Wales Quarrying Museum) is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd.

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Net income

In business and accounting, net income (also total comprehensive income, net earnings, net profit, bottom line, sales profit, or credit sales) is an entity's income minus cost of goods sold, expenses, depreciation and amortization, interest, and taxes for an accounting period.

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Nonconformist (Protestantism)

Nonconformists were Protestant Christians who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the state church in England, and in Wales until 1914, the Church of England.

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Oakeley quarry

Oakeley quarry is a slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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Padarn Railway

The Padarn Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in North Wales, built to the unusual gauge of.

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Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro) is a county in the south-west of Wales.

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Penrhyn quarry

The Penrhyn quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda, North Wales. Slate industry in Wales and Penrhyn quarry are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Penrhyn Quarry Railway

The Penrhyn Quarry Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales.

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Port Penrhyn

Port Penrhyn (Porth Penrhyn) is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the confluence of the River Cegin with the Menai Strait.

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Porthmadog

Porthmadog, originally Portmadoc until 1974 and locally as "Port", is a coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, Wales, and the historic county of Caernarfonshire. Slate industry in Wales and Porthmadog are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Protectionism

Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Quarry

A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground.

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Recession

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a general decline in economic activity.

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Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan is a town, community, and electoral ward in Denbighshire, Wales.

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Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn

Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808), was a Welsh politician and nobleman who served as an member of parliament in the British Parliament, representing Petersfield and Liverpool from 1761 to 1790.

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River Dee, Wales

The River Dee (Afon Dyfrdwy, Deva Fluvius) is a river flowing through North Wales, and through Cheshire, England, in Great Britain.

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River Dwyryd

The River Dwyryd (Afon Dwyryd), is a river in Gwynedd, Wales which flows principally westwards; draining to the sea into Tremadog Bay, south of Porthmadog.

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River Dyfi

The River Dyfi (Afon Dyfi), also known as the River Dovey, is an approximately long river in Wales.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of Britannia after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain.

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Roof

A roof (roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind.

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Segontium

Segontium (Cair Segeint) is a Roman fort on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, North Wales.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Silicosis

Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust.

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Silurian

The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.

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Slate industry

The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate.

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Slate waggon

Slate wagons are specialized types of railway wagons designed for the conveyance of slate.

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Snowdon

Snowdon, or italic, is a mountain in the Snowdonia region of North Wales.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Strike pay

Strike pay is a payment made by a trade union to workers who are on strike to help in meeting their basic needs while on strike, often out of a special reserve known as a strike fund.

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Talyllyn Railway

The Talyllyn Railway (Rheilffordd Talyllyn) is a narrow-gauge railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. Slate industry in Wales and Talyllyn Railway are the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales.

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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Thomas Assheton Smith (1752–1828)

Thomas Assheton Smith (the elder) (1752 – 12 May 1828) was an English landowner and all-round sportsman who played a major part in the development of the Welsh slate industry.

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Tile

Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. Slate industry in Wales and Tile are roof tiles.

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Ton

Ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force.

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Tory

A Tory is an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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Traed mewn cyffion

Traed mewn cyffion ("Feet in the stocks") is a novel by Kate Roberts, written in the Welsh language and first published in 1936.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_industry_in_Wales

Also known as Slate Industry of North Wales, Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, Welsh Slate, Welsh slate industry.

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Slate industry in Wales, the Glossary

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See also

Industrial history of Wales

Mining in Wales

Roof tiles

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales

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