Britannia Mine

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NPRN33764
Map ReferenceSH65SW
Grid ReferenceSH6202454573
Unitary (Local) AuthorityGwynedd
Old CountyCaernarfonshire
CommunityBeddgelert
Type Of SiteMINE
PeriodPost Medieval, 18th Century
Description
Britannia Mine and Copper Mill is located on the southern slopes of Snowdon and it was worked from the eighteenth-century. The mill was built in 1898 and was powered by electricity from a pelton wheel. The site has been consolidated by Snowdonia National Park.

Source: David Gwyn & Merfyn Williams (1996) `A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of North West Wales?. Association for Industrial Archaeology.

Claire Parry, RCAHMW, 17 November 2011.