Garneddwen
{{About|the hamlet on the Corris Railway|the station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line|Garneddwen Halt railway station}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = Wales
| official_name = Garneddwen
| welsh_name =
| coordinates = {{coord|52.662|-3.829|display=inline,title}}
| static_image_name = Garneddwen - geograph.org.uk - 213903.jpg
| static_image_caption = Garneddwen
| population =
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| community_wales = Corris
| unitary_wales = Gwynedd
| lieutenancy_wales =
| constituency_welsh_assembly = Dwyfor Meirionnydd
| constituency_westminster = Dwyfor Meirionnydd
| post_town = MACHYNLLETH
| postcode_district = SY20
| postcode_area = SY
| dial_code = 01654
| os_grid_reference = SH763088
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Garneddwen (also known as Garnedd-Wen; {{langx|en|white cairn}}) is a hamlet in the south of the county of Gwynedd, Wales. It lies in the historic county of Merionethshire/Sir Feirionnydd, in the valley of the Afon Dulas.
It consists primarily of a single row of terraced houses, built for the workers at Aberllefenni Slate Quarry. The hamlet was named after a large cairn ("carnedd" in Welsh) that was to be found in a field below the farm of the same name up to Victorian times.{{cite book|author=Powys-land Club|title=Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its Borders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEwuAAAAMAAJ|year=1874|publisher=The Club}}
History
Sarn Helen, a Roman road which connected the north and south parts of Roman Wales, probably ran through the hamlet.
Nearby is Fronwen, built as a family home by the quarry manager Robert Hughes (1813–1882) and his wife Jane née Deakin (1822–1906). They had four sons who were born in this house :
- Llewelyn Robert (born 1856)
- Arthur Edward (1857–1918), who married future author Molly Thomas in 1897
- Charles Ernest (born 1859)
- Alfred William (1861–1900) Professor of Anatomy and Dean of the Faculty of King's College London, whose monument stands on the outskirts of Corris{{importance inline|date=August 2021}}
= Railway Station =
Garneddwen railway station was a station on the former Corris Railway, a narrow gauge railway which ran from {{rws|Aberllefenni}} to {{rws|Machynlleth|Corris Railway}}. The station was open from 25 August 1887,{{cite book |title=Narrow Gauge Railways in Mid Wales |year=1965 |last=Boyd |first=James I.C. |author-link=James I. C. Boyd |publisher=The Oakwood Press |pages=24–25}} until the end of passenger services, in December 1930. The Corris Railway closed completely on 20 August 1948,{{cite book |author=The Corris Railway Society |author-link=Corris Railway Society |title=Corris Railway – Guidebook & Stocklist |date=2009 |publisher=Template Printing (Nottingham) Limited |language=en-gb |chapter=The Corris Railway – 1859 to 1948}}{{rp|7}} and the track was lifted between {{rws|Aberllefenni}} and {{rws|Corris}} (through Garneddwen, which lies in the middle) in November 1948. The former railway's trackbed at Garneddwen is now an access road for the hamlet.
{{Disused Rail Start}}
{{rail line|previous={{Stnlnk|Corris}}|route=Corris Railway|next={{Stnlnk|Aberllefenni}}|col=000000}}
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Geology
The hamlet gives its name to the Garnedd-Wen Formation, a thick rock strata that runs from Tywyn to Dinas Mawddwy and was first identified close by the settlement.{{cite book|author=Geological Society of London|title=The Quarterly Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2wcAQAAMAAJ|year=1928}}
References
External links
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{{Corris Railway}}
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