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Dorothea Quarry Beam Engine is a Post-Medieval industrial engine house located in Conwy, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under reference CN165. The structure dates from the nineteenth century and represents the mechanisation of slate quarrying operations in North Wales during the period of intense industrial expansion. The engine house housed a beam engine, a mechanical installation used to pump water from the working quarry or to power extraction and processing machinery. The survival of this structure provides archaeological and historical evidence of the technological systems that underpinned the slate industry, which was fundamental to the regional economy during the Victorian era.
Dorothea Quarry Beam Engine is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN165. View the official record →
Dorothea Quarry Beam Engine is a Post-Medieval industrial engine house located in Conwy, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under reference CN165. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN165.
Dorothea Quarry Beam Engine dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a engine house. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Dorothea Quarry Beam Engine is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is CN165.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hut Circle Settlement Above Gilfach (6.4 km), Llystyn Gwyn Inscribed Stone (7.7 km), Huts and Enclosures, Cwm Llefrith (8.3 km).
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