Brynrefail, Gwynedd
| Brynrefail | |
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 Afon Caledffrwd at Pont Brynrefail |
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 Brynrefail
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| Brynrefail shown within Gwynedd | |
| OS grid reference | SH558626 |
| Community | |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CAERNARFON |
| Postcode district | LL55 |
| Dialling code | 01286 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
| UK Parliament | |
| Welsh Assembly | |
Brynrefail is a small village in Gwynedd, Wales that straddles the A4244 road roughly between Deiniolen and Llanberis.
The village is in Wales (European Parliament constituency) the Arfon (UK Parliament constituency) and the Gwynedd Council Ward of Penisarwaen.
Brynrefail stands a short walk from the northern shore of Llyn Padarn lake. Afon Rhythallt leaves the lake at this point becoming Afon Seiont downstream at Pont Rhythallt, Llanrug before meandering its historic way to the sea.
The main street (now quiet after the by-pass was built in the 1960s) is mainly traditional terraced housing, the village Post Office, and the village's sole chapel which is still in use.
The village is policed from Llanberis and has a dedicated Community Beat Manager.
The roots of the village are in the 19th-century slate industry and was apparently built to house workers for the nearby Dinorwig slate quarry.
As far as can be established the village developed around the village smithy (yr efail in Welsh). The building housing the smithy still exists and has been converted from a tumbledown building into a cottage called The Nook which was built in 1776.
The village's development may well have been also influenced by the quarry railway that ran between Dinorwic Quarry and Y Felinheli (or the unofficial English name of Portdinorwic) and skirted around the village and along the shore of the lake.
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