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664:) These last two have adapted to the Great Orme by appearing earlier in the year to take advantage of the limestone flowers and grasses. Also they are smaller than in other parts of the country and are recognised as a definite subspecies. The Great Orme is reported as the northernmost known habitat within Britain for several 'southern' species of
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In April 1991 the Great Orme Mines site was opened to the public. Pathways and viewing platforms were constructed to give access to the surface excavations. In 1996 a bridge was erected over the top of Vivian's Shaft. The visitor centre's extension, built-in 2014, contains a selection of mining tools
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was mined during the period. The mine was most productive in the period between 1700BC and 1400BC, after which most of the readily accessible copper had been extracted. The site was so productive that by 1600BC, there were no other copper mines left open in
Britain because they could not compete with
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Defence Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) known as "X3" which was a 3-storey building erected in 1942. This seems to have been a secret radar experimental station above the artillery school. The road put in to serve it now serves a car park on the approximate
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map (published in 1841 and before the establishment of
Llandudno) follows this convention. The headland is called the "Great Orme's Head" but its landward features all have Welsh names. It is likely that Orme became established as its common name due to Llandudno's burgeoning tourist trade because a
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restrictions in Wales, goats began entering the town because of the lack of people; at the same time, the goat population on the Orme grew rapidly because park wardens were unable to administer sterilisation injections. With the end of the pandemic, the town council has created a special task force
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car up the cable track of the Great Orme, with a gradient of 1 in 3 in places, becoming the first woman to drive up the steep and challenging headland. She was six months pregnant at the time and the drive was a publicity stunt developed by her partner George Wilkin Browne to help sell the cars at
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Ffynnon Gaseg. Literally "Mare's well", this spring was revealed at the side of the road, about halfway round and near the highest point, during the construction of the Marine Drive in the 19th century. It was ideally situated to refresh the horses on the five-mile carriage drive round the base of
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connected the Orme to
Liverpool and Holyhead. At first the new equipment was installed in the original Semaphore Station on the summit until it was moved down to the Great Orme lighthouse in 1859. Two years later the Great Orme semaphore station closed with the completion of a direct electric
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of Pen y Dinas at the northeastern "corner" of the Great Orme. With the reopening of the copper mines from the 18th century onwards, this township grew considerably in size with the streets and cottages of the mining village laid out on the largely abandoned agricultural holdings.
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was introduced in 1832 and ten years later an 822-metre long tunnel was mined at sea level to drain the deeper mine workings. Commercial-scale mining on the Great Orme ended in the 1850s, although small-scale mining continued until the mines were finally abandoned in 1881.
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Gogarth. The main water source for Gogarth and in the later 18th and early 19th centuries the power source to operate the famous Tom and Gerry engine that through a long series of Brammock rods powered the mine water pumps at the Higher shaft near the summit above
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Natural wells were greatly prized in limestone districts and the Great Orme was no exception. Water was required for copper mining purposes as well as for domestic and agricultural use. The following Great Orme wells are known and most still supply running water:
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The mine was abandoned and evidence suggests it was not worked again until the late 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Mining began in the late 17th century due to the demand for copper and improved ability to pump water out of the mine. A
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Haulfre Garden cover the lower landward facing steeply sloping southern side. Walkways link the Haulfre Gardens with the western end of the Marine Drive.
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By the early 20th century, a nine-bed hotel was built on the site. It served as the clubhouse for the Great Orme Golf Club that was founded in the early 1900s. The course closed in 1939 and is now a sheep farm.
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Ffynnon Tudno. Situated beyond the road, near the northeast corner of St Tudno's Church, ffynnon Tudno was, together with ffynnon
Rufeining, a principal source of water for the community settled around the
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was also constructed to take visitors up to the summit attractions. These include a tourist shop, cafeteria, visitors' centre, play areas, a licensed hotel, and the vintage tram/cable-car stations.
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Victorians visit the old semaphore station at the summit to enjoy the panorama. This led to the development of the summit complex.
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guest house. The lantern and its optics are now on permanent display at the Summit
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With the creation of Llandudno, the first route round the perimeter of the Great Orme was a footpath constructed in 1858 by Reginald Cust, a trustee of the
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left no written texts of their time in North Wales although they certainly raided the area. They did not found any permanent settlements, unlike on the
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where open-air services are held every Sunday morning in summer. Nearby are several large ancient stones that have become shrouded in
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to name the headland's landward features and the surrounding area. The entire peninsula on which Llandudno was built was known as the
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at the summit. In 1952 the site was taken into private ownership until it was acquired by Llandudno Urban Town Council in 1961.
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his Llandudno garage, North Wales Silver Motors. Her feat is commemorated by her unusual gravestone in St Tudno's graveyard.
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remained in continuous use until 22 March 1985 when it was decommissioned. The building has now been converted into a small
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tunnels have been discovered. It is estimated that less than half of the prehistoric tunnels have been discovered so far.
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to the Great Orme in 1940 (and additionally a Practice Camp was established on the Little Orme in 1941) during the
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also crosses the headland. About half the Great Orme is in use as farmland, mostly for sheep grazing. In 2015, the
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in the east. Skilled telegraphers could send semaphore messages between Liverpool and Holyhead in under a minute.
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covering several headland areas. There are also rich seams of
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30:"Gogarth" redirects here. For the station in Mid-Wales, see
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The Great Orme is a peninsula made mostly of limestone and
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Plan of the Bay & Harbour of Conway in Caernarvon Shire
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slopes in North Wales, complete with one of the longest
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1940:. Great Orme Mines Ltd, Great Orme, Llandudno, Wales.
1729:"The Ancient Copper Mines Dug By Bronze Age Children"
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The Marine Drive round the Great Orme opened in 1878.
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sub-Arctic species that developed following the last
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1892:. Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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2822:Tourist attractions in Conwy County Borough
2817:Mountains and hills of Conwy County Borough
1845:. Landmark Publishing Ltd. pp. 70–121.
2837:Limestone formations of the United Kingdom
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1982:BBC Radio 4 programme on Bronze Age mining
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1379:(University of Wales Press, 1994). 9.153n.
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1977:Photos of Great Orme and surrounding area
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1341:View across Llandudno Bay towards the
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1862:Historic Landscapes of the Great Orme
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1431:Ordnance Survey (1841) First Series
1313:. It was constructed in 1862 by the
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1909:Map of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire
496:Location of wells on the Great Orme
442:Site of Special Scientific Interest
1952:The Great Orme Exploration Society
1921:. Landmark, Ashbourne Derbyshire.
558:Landscaped gardens in Happy Valley
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2812:Headlands of Conwy County Borough
1864:. Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Wales.
1727:Ruggeri, Amanda (21 April 2016).
1630:"Soldiers choose regimental goat"
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1962:The Great Orme Summit Experience
1919:Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts
1881:Llandudno Coast Artillery School
1843:Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts
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1588:. llandudno.com. Archived from
1586:"The Great Orme Kashmiri Goats"
1394:BBC Cymru Wales history website
1021:The Great Orme's summit complex
947:. The palace was burnt down by
1375:J. E. Caerwyn Williams (ed.),
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1562:"Wild Cotoneaster (pdf file)"
1523:A History of Ancient Britain.
2724:Registered parks and gardens
2674:Parliamentary constituencies
1890:Llandudno Past & Present
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1204:Vintage tram near the summit
826:with the opening of several
434:Special Area of Conservation
263:, north-west of the town of
1938:Great Orme Bronze Age Mines
1493:"Geology of Britain viewer"
303:Map of the Great Orme, 1947
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2410:Llanddulas and Rhyd-y-foel
1917:Wynne Jones, Ivor (2002).
1841:Wynne Jones, Ivor (2002).
1705:Johnson, Ben, ed. (2014).
1058:optical semaphore stations
1049:between Liverpool and the
537:, a sixth-century monk of
470:Earth's geological history
372:(the medieval name of the
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1883:. Llandudno Town Council.
1879:Evans, Philip C. (2011).
1497:British Geological Survey
1452:UK Government Web Archive
1390:"Great Orme copper mines"
1082: mi (14 km) to
1031:Private Act of Parliament
1025:In 1825 the Board of the
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2455:Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
1789:Bloor, Roger N. (2016).
1450:24 November 2012 at the
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856:Welsh Development Agency
752:to manage goat numbers.
725:compulsory sterilization
662:Hipparchia semele thyone
424:cliffs of the Great Orme
89:201 m (659 ft)
79:207 m (679 ft)
2430:Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr
2214:Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr
997:The third township was
618:Wheeleria spilodactylus
32:Gogarth railway station
27:Headland in north Wales
1957:The Great Orme Tramway
1767:. Golf’s Missing Links
1765:"Great Orme Golf Club"
1707:"The Great Orme Mines"
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1936:Jowett, Nick (2016).
1888:Roberts, Jim (1992).
1692:www.countryliving.com
1574:on 27 September 2007.
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