North Wales

Culture & Heritage

Humans and wildlife have lived together in North Wales for 6000 years. North Wales has been dominated by a pastoral farming tradition. A variety of livestock was farmed until the Enclosure Acts in the late 18th Century when sheep displaced cattle as the predominant livestock. This long history attracts many visitors today

With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, numerous mines and hillside quarries were opened with significant impacts on the region and its communities

One of the most important industries in North Wales was slate mining and the story of the Welsh slate industry is now told at the national Slate Museum. The National Slate Museum is sited in the Victorian workshops built in the shadow of Elidir mountain, site of the vast Dinorwig quarry. Here visitors can travel into the past of an industry and a way of life that has chiselled itself into the very being of Wales.

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the unique culture of Wales represented by the Welsh language. More tourists today expect to receive a "warm Welsh welcome"; in Welsh: "croeso cynnes Cymraeg"

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