45 Cefn Du and Garreg Lefain

Historic background

A largely unenclosed area long the property of the Crown, used as a sheepwalk.

Key historic landscape characteristics

Unenclosed upland

An upland area, largely unenclosed apart from a climbing centre (Plas y Celyn) and a number of regularly-laid out sheepfolds; the cart road constructed in the early nineteenth century to give access to Cefn Du quarry forms the southern boundary to this area.

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