An adventure park operator has shared details of enhancements to its mine tour. Zip World’s Deep Mine Tour, which takes visitors to the depths of the Llechwedd caverns, will now feature a range of new ...

Deep Sleep is located in a disused Victorian slate mine below Snowdonia in Wales ... at 5 pm at their Tanygrisiau Base, near Blaenau Ffestiniog. From there, they begin a 45-minute walk up into ...

Bleanau Ffestiniog is a town in the county of Gywnedd. It is the slate capital of North Wales, and while the mining of slate is not at the level it once was it is still what the town is known for.

By the 1870s, slate was one of Wales' major industries and Blaenau Ffestiniog had become an industrial town. The Dinorwig and Penrhyn quarries were the two largest slate quarries in the world ...

For four years the hills of Manod, near the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, became the hidden underground home for nearly 2,000 of the world's greatest artistic masterpieces. The ...