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Rhiwbach Quarry, Tramway and Incline System is a nineteenth-century slate quarrying and transport complex located in Conwy, North Wales. The site comprises an extensive slate quarry worked from the mid-1800s onwards, served by a tramway system and an inclined plane designed to facilitate the movement of slate from the quarry face to lower levels for onward transport. The infrastructure represents the industrial engineering solutions developed to extract and distribute the region's substantial slate resources during the Victorian era, when Welsh slate was in high demand for roofing materials across Britain and beyond. The surviving remains of quarrying equipment, tramway trackways, and incline structures constitute an important record of nineteenth-century extractive industry practices in North Wales.
Rhiwbach Quarry, Tramway and Incline System is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN414. View the official record →
Rhiwbach Quarry, Tramway and Incline System is a nineteenth-century slate quarrying and transport complex located in Conwy, North Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN414.
Rhiwbach Quarry, Tramway and Incline System dates from the industrial period, and is classified as a railway. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Rhiwbach Quarry, Tramway and Incline System 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 CN414.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed Hut Group at Nurse Cae Du (7.8 km), Castell Tomen y Mur (8.1 km), Tomen y Mur (8.2 km).
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