The industrial town in Gwynedd
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16525301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Gwyn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-89 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscape History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-3768 • E-ISSN: 2160-2506 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01433768.2001.10594531 |
| OpenAlex | W2320180424 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Within Gwynedd, industry, in the shape of slate quarrying, and to a lesser extent, working for stone and minerals, developed in a patchy way, comparatively late, within a landscape and a culture that was to remain in many ways rural. Many quarrymen and miners preferred to remain on the land, and made their homes in dispersed cottage settlements. Others established themselves in entirely new towns, which are now recognised as outstanding examples of nineteenth-century industrial communities. The following article discusses the origins, growth and morphology of four of these towns, and argues that their distinctive evolution is the result of the structure of local landownership in the course of the nineteenth century
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cottage industry · Geography · Human settlement · Late 19th century · Period (music · Plucking · Political science · Rural area · Small town · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |