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Bethesda

This old quarry town takes its name from the Nonconformist chapel that was built here and served many of the 2,300 men and their families who worked in the quarry at its peak in 1875. The gouged rock of the Penrhyn Slate Quarries forms a huge hillside amphitheatre; it was the largest opencast slate mine in the world and still produces high-quality slate 250 years after it was first worked.

From the town, the main road travels through the beautiful Nant Ffrancon Pass, which runs straight through and up the valley of the River Ogwen and into the Snowdonia National Park. Five miles south of Bethesda on the A5, Llyn Idwal is one of several lakes on the National Trust’s Carneddau Estate. In 1954 it was declared the first National Nature Reserve in Wales.