Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)

[Hugo]

Is there a mill nearby...........

I don't honestly know that Steve but there is a brook nearby.

I wonder where you had in mind, a penny for your thoughts.

I've just checked with Google and there was a mill there.

[SteveH]

Is there a mill nearby...........

I don't honestly know that Steve but there is a brook nearby.
I wonder where you had in mind, a penny for your thoughts.

I have no idea where, trying to get clues from the photo.....I thought a mill stone......look's like a metal bolt or tube in the middle,........ the outer circle seem's to have a square drain hole in it, a form of fountain or cattle trough..............

[Hugo]

It's in the middle of a nice picnic area that has a nice waterfall nearby

[SteveH]

Best guess.....Dyserth waterfalls

[Hugo]

It's nowhere near as big as Dyserth Waterfalls Steve but the waterfall is in a little valley and you can see the blues , greens and copper coloured stones on the bottom of the brook             
The picnic area is behind this property                     

[Hugo]

That brook flows down the little valley and over the waterfall and past the picnic site before it reappears in front of that ivy covered house. But did it flow into the sea at one time?                       

Where is that object?

[Fester]

.... or did it drain into the river Conwy? 

I've been to that spot, I have a picture there (dated 2006), but I can't remember where we were!

[Hugo]

Not the River Conwy Fester so keep thinking.    Gwynant has walked past it and Jack may have done, so it should be very easy for them.

It must have flowed into the sea one time but that could have been a long time ago.         

[Hugo]

Is this fly tipping or industrial waste?   

[Gwynant]

                   Beddgelert?

[SteveH]

I have been looking at old copper mine sites, not many but Sygun came up.....any good

[Hugo]

I'll say this for you Steve, you never give up.    You're close, very close but not close enough for me to give you it.       

Final picture and clue:-

This is Cwm Bychan  ( little valley ) but the picnic area is not there, so where is the village or area where it is located?       

[Hugo]

                   Beddgelert?

Not quite and you've walked past it Gwynant.     

[SteveH]

Cwm Bychan Aerial Ropeway nr Beddgelert N. Wales.............This is the old aeriel ropeway built in 1927 to transport copper ore from a point near Four Lodes, at the upper end of Cwm Bychan to a processing plant at the lower end of the mountain, near Nantmor, about a mile or so away.
If this is correct, you might like the site, some very good photos.....http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/industrial-sites/31134-cwm-bychan-aerial-ropeway-nr-beddgelert-wales.html#.Vbuh0vNViko

I would still like to know what that stone is in your first photo, good excuse to go back..

[Hugo]

Well done Steve, you've got the answer Nantmor              Nant = brook       
                                                                                          Mor  =  sea           

 

Gwynant, after you've done the Fisherman'r path,  walk towards Cwm Bychan and go under the Welsh Highland Railway Bridge and there's the picnic area in front of you.

Nantmor  with a young Uncle Albert before his beard turned white