Croesor is a small village in

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, Wales, located at the foot of

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, in Cwm Croesor, in the

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. The

Croesor Tramway The Croesor Tramway was a Welsh, narrow gauge railway line built to carry slate from the Croesor slate mines to Porthmadog. It was built in 1864 without an Act of Parliament and was operated using horse power. The tramway was absorbed into the ...

travelled along the bed of the cwm, before rising steeply to Bwlch Rhosydd via Croesor Incline. To the south of the village is the site of Parc, which was the ancient estate of the Anwyl Family, with a claim to be the direct descendants in the male line of

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, prince of

. The primary language used is

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The Snowdonia Slate Trail between

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and

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passes through the village

Famous residents

The author

Patrick O'Brian Patrick O'Brian, Order of the British Empire, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during t ...

and his wife Mary were residents of this village from 1945 to 1949, living first at the cottage Fron Wen and later at a larger house Moelwyn Bank. In the early 1960s, the author

Philip O'Connor __NOTOC__ __NOTOC__ Philip Marie Constant Bancroft O'Connor (8 September 1916 – 29 May 1998) was a British writer and surrealist poet, who also painted. He was one of the 'Wheatsheaf writers' of 1930s Fitzrovia (who took their name from a pub). ...

spent several years in Croesor, which served as the basis for ''Living In Croesor'' (1962), an account of the village and its people. Novelist, playwright, and poet Richard A.W. Hughes lived at Parc, in the vicinity of Croesor, beginning in 1934 and continuing into the Second World War. Hughes sheltered evacuee children there and collected the stories they told together.

External links

Historywww.geograph.co.uk : photos of Croesor and surrounding area
* Villages in Gwynedd Villages in Snowdonia Llanfrothen Mining communities in Wales {{Gwynedd-geo-stub

Famous residents

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