Dinorwig is a small village located high above Llyn Padarn, near Llanberis, in Wales. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Llyn Padarn is a lake in Snowdonia, Wales. ... Llanberis is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, lying beside the Llyn Padarn lake in Snowdonia. ... For an explanation of often confusing terms such as Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, England and Wales and England, see British Isles (terminology). ...

It was a major supplier of workers to the local Dinorwig slate quarry, and as a result, grew in size. However, with the close of the quarries in the first half of the 20th century, the village became a domitory village for people working in nearby Bangor or Caernarfon, the local economy suffered, and the schools, shops and businesses closed as people moved away. Slate Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock which was derived from an original sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. ... A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ... Places Called Bangor Bangor is the name of several places: In the United Kingdom: Bangor, a town in County Down, Northern Ireland Bangor, a city in Gwynedd, Wales (and home of the University of Wales, Bangor) Bangor-on-Dee (a. ... Caernarfon, 2002 Caernarfon (the Welsh spelling is now normally used in preference over the anglicised forms, Caernarvon or Carnarvon) is a royal town in north-west Wales. ...

Today, the village shares its name with a new hydroelectric power station, Dinorwig power station Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... Oil power plant in Iraq A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... Dinorwig from Llanberis Dinorwig power station is a 1728 MW pumped storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, in the Pass of Llanberis on the edge of the Snowdonia national park in north Wales. ...