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This is Nant Gwytheryn, the village was built in the 1880s to serve the Granite quarries, one is visible in the top right corner of the photograph. The last of the quarries closed in 1949 and the village fell into disrepair, eventually it was restored and is now the "Welsh Language centre " it is a school teaching Welsh and also a venue for weddings, conferences etc. The road winds down the side of the mountain and is quite steep in parts, in the days of the quarry it was too steep for horses to pull carts so sledges were used instead. The stone went out by sea and there was a loading jetty, this was destroyed as it became unsafe.