Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[Hugo]

The road that runs past the old shop is near the A470 and has something in common with it,  you can't see the old road on Google Street view though.
I bet Gwynant has seen it but may not have recognised it as it has changed so much since the photo was taken

[Gwynant]

                I don't recognise it at all Hugo, but I'll have a stab at Blaenau Ffestiniog /Tan-y-Grisiau.

[Hugo]

It's not Blaenau Gwynant,  but nearer the three towns.

I'm sure that you will have gone past it but it's unrecognisable from the photo.  Can't make it too easy with any more photos because it will be too obvious.      The road doesn't have any cars on it but you do see many walkers roaming about the place.

[Yorkie]

Betwys y Coed?

[Hugo]

Very good Yorkie, you're getting warmer but still not correct.

It's more of a rural setting with hills and meadows.           

[Yorkie]

Dolwyddelan?   

[Hugo]

That's very close too Yorkie, but not close enough I'm afraid.

Remember the clues are already there!       

[Jack]

Penmachno?

[Yorkie]

Abergwyngregin ? Z**

[Hugo]

Too far away Jack and Yorkie you're way off.

It's within 5 miles of Betws Y Coed

Have a look at the clues again they should tell you exactly where it is.

[Yorkie]

Pentrefoelas

[Hugo]

It's not Pentrefoelas Yorkie but I'll give one last big clue that should pinpoint it.

The ancient main road that passes through the village was possibly the first direct road  built between North and South Wales.  Similar to the A470 but predating it by many hundreds of years.
The cottages may be over 300 years old but the road was there long before that and through the village it looks more like a road than a causeway.               

[Gwynant]

                                This is beginning to get to me Hugo, it worries me when I have allegedly been somewhere and can't  remember it!  How about Capel Curig?   (possibly in the Pont Cyfyng area on the approach to Moel Siabod on the old Sarn Helen route)

[Yorkie]

My lack of knowledge of the area doesn't help with solving the clues but now I have decided it is one of two places, either Trefrew or Nebo!

I'm Google eyed searching for old Roman and Medieval roads and even old Drovers' tracks!   

[Hugo]

I'm surprised Gwynant as you have been on so many walk in the area.  It is on the old Roman Road of Sarn Helem  (Helen's Causeway) but that starts at Pentre Du on it's way over to Dolwyddelan.
I've even given the name of the village in a cryptic clue, albeit in English,  Hill and meadows   

It's the only photo I've ever seen of the village before it was abandoned in the 1940's.  I'll put you both out of your misery as you are so near and tried so hard.

The shop was in the now abandoned village of Rhiwddolion, not far from Llyn Elsi.   The buildings were pretty old and an inscription on a fireplace is from the 1600's. Here are some photos of the village now and if you had of seen them earlier you'd have guessed it straight away.