Cloddfa'r Coed slate quarry was located on the east side of Talysarn. It was a small, late-eighteenth century working that opened intermittently until well into the twentieth century. Other than in the 1890s tonnages were very small: in 1873, for example, four men produced eight tons.
In the 1940s it was acquired by Dorothea but not worked. The site has since been landscaped.
Sources:
Lindsay 1974 (Hist. N Wales Slate Ind.), 314)
Ordnance Survey County Series 25-inch mapping: sheet Caernarvonshire XXI.9, editions of 1899, 1900 & 1916.
A.J.Richards, A Gazeteer of the Welsh Slate Industry (1991), p.48.
David Leighton, RCAHMW, 22 June 2015
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application/postscriptWSP - Welsh Slate Publication CollectionFfigur 72. Dehongliad o ddyluniad injan Fawcett a Littledale yng Nghloddfa'r Coed, Nantlle, fel y'i dangoswyd ar gynllun cynnar. Cafodd ei defnyddio i bwmpio i ddechrau ac yna i godi hefyd. Gyda diolch i Eric Lander
application/postscriptWSP - Welsh Slate Publication CollectionFigure 72. An interpretation of the design of the Fawcett and Littledale engine at Cloddfa'r Coed, Nantlle. This was initially used for pumping and later also for winding. With acknowledgment to Eric Lander
