Alt Ref NoPENRH/1975
TitleReport by Thomas Stanton of the Canal Office, Ellesmere, to H.M. Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenue.
DescriptionRegarding "the present state of the Llanllechid Slate Quarries ...and the extent and mode of working the same, and also how far the Covenants of the Lease to George Hay Dawkins Pennant, esq., dated 21st November, 1817, had been complied with". Poor account of Llanllechid Mountain and the possibility of ever securing slates there comparable to those of Cae-braich-y-cafn [which he spells Cae Branch y Cefn], except at Bryn Hafod y Wern, of which quarry he gives a particularly ling description; refers to abandonment of trials at Moel Faban and Moel Faban Bach.
Date31 August 1824
Extent1
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