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Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli, formerly recognized in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village, neighborhood and selecting ward beside the Menai Strait between Bangor as well as Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The population of the village was 2,284 at the 2011 Census. Y Felinheli has its beginnings in two communities, Tafarngrisiau near St Mary's Church as well as Aberpwll to the north-east where there was a mill on the Afon Heulyn. The mill was rebuilt closer to the sea in 1633 as well as provided its name to the settlement. The location was largely farming up until the area was transformed by slate quarrying in the 19th century. A new dock was constructed in 1828 when lime was drawn out at Brynadda and slate and lime were filled and culm (coal dirt or anthracite slack) was brought in to fire the lime kilns. The owners of the Vaynol Estate, the Assheton Smiths, owned the majority of the land in Y Felinheli and also established the Dinorwic Quarry in the late 18th century, They also developed the harbour to export slate transferred to the quay by the Dinorwic Railway, a slim scale train that was ultimately replaced by the Padarn Railway. Industrial development provided Y Felinheli (Felin-hely, 1838) the alternative name Port Dinorwig or Port Dinorwic.