22/05/2026
Good question!
Plas Weunydd was originally built as the home of the Greaves family, who owned and ran Llechwedd slate quarry from the 1830s and whose descendants still own the land today. Llechwedd is one of the historic slate mines here in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Which is why your view at Llechwedd Glamping looks the way it does.
Those ridges and terraces are the remains of the quarry workings that made Blaenau Ffestiniog famous. The hills of rock are slate tips, built up over decades, and the flat ledges are old quarry levels where men once cut and split slate by hand.
When you stay here you're right in the middle of the UNESCO Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, where the mountains show the marks of that industry.
From one direction, you'll see bluebells, lush moorlands and pops of yellow gorse, and the other direction you'll see the dramatic quarries, valleys and mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia) that surround us. We wouldn't have it any other way.
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