Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales' has mentioned 'Wales' in the following places:
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| These quarrymen are working at the Dinorwic Quarry, Wales, about 1910. | WIKI |
| The existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon. | WIKI |
| The slate industry grew slowly until the early 18th century, then expanded rapidly until the late 19th century, at which time the most important slate producing areas were in northwest Wales, including the Penrhyn Quarry near Bethesda, the Dinorwic Quarry near Llanberis, the Nantlle Valley quarries, and Blaenau Ffestiniog, where the slate was mined rather than quarried. | WIKI |
| The slate industry dominated the economy of north-west Wales during the second half of the 19th century, but was on a much smaller scale elsewhere. | WIKI |
| The slate industry in North Wales is a World Heritage Site, whilst Welsh slate has been designated by the International Union of Geological Sciences as a Global Heritage Stone Resource. | WIKI |
| The most important slate deposits in Wales are the Cambrian deposits south of Bangor and Caernarfon and the Ordovician deposits around Blaenau Ffestiniog. | WIKI |
| The slate deposits of Wales belong to three geological series: Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian. | WIKI |
| There is another band of Ordovician slate further south, running from Llangynnog to Aberdyfi, quarried mainly in the Corris area, with a few outcrops in south-west Wales, notably Pembrokeshire. | WIKI |
| The Cilgwyn quarry in the Nantlle Valley dates from the 12th century, and is thought to be the oldest in Wales. | WIKI |
| The Cilgwyn Quarry, the oldest in Wales, was one of the most important producers of slate in the 18th century. | WIKI |
| Wales was by now producing more than half the United Kingdom's output of slate, 26,000xc2xa0tons out of a total UK production of 45,000xc2xa0tons in 1793. | WIKI |
| Bryn Eglwys grew to be one of the largest quarries in mid Wales, employing 300 men and producing 30% of the total output of the Corris district. | WIKI |
| The Nantlle Valley quarries produced 40,000xc2xa0tons, while the remainder of Wales outside these areas produced only about 20,000xc2xa0tons per year. | WIKI |
| [40] By the late 1870s, Wales was producing 450,000xc2xa0tons of slate per year, compared with just over 50,000xc2xa0tons for the rest of the United Kingdom, which then included Ireland. | WIKI |
| [41] In 1882, 92% of the United Kingdom's production was from Wales with the quarries at Penrhyn and Dinorwig producing half of this between them. | WIKI |
| It dominated the economy of the north-west of Wales, where, by the middle of the 19thC. | WIKI |
| it accounted for almost half the total revenues from trade, industry and the professions, and in Wales as a whole, its output value compared with that of coal. | WIKI |
| The North Wales Quarrymen's Union (NWQMU) was formed in 1874, and the same year there were disputes at Dinorwig and then at Penrhyn. | WIKI |
| The Penrhyn Slate Quarry, seen here c. 1900, was one of the two largest quarries in Wales. | WIKI |
| Together with the Dinorwig Quarry, it usually produced as many slates as every other quarry in Wales put together. | WIKI |
| [56] Slate production in Wales peaked at over half a million tons in 1898, with 17,000 men employed in the industry. | WIKI |
| Cilgwyn, the oldest quarry in Wales, closed in 1914, though it later reopened. | WIKI |
| The number of men employed in the slate industry in North Wales dropped from 7,589 in 1939 to 3,520 by the end of the war. | WIKI |
| Total production of slate in Wales declined from 54,000xc2xa0tons in 1958 to 22,000xc2xa0tons in 1970. | WIKI |
| [76] By 1972,fewer than 1,000 men were employed in the North Wales slate industry. | WIKI |
| [81] The Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff uses waste slate in many different colours in its design: purple slate from Penrhyn, blue from Cwt-y-Bugail, green from Nantlle, grey from Llechwedd, and black from Corris. | WIKI |
| In July 2021, after development of a bid for over 10 years,[88] the slate landscape of Northwest Wales was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. | WIKI |
| [89] The areas included in the nomination include Penrhyn quarry and the Ogwen Valley,[90] Dinorwig quarry,[91] Nantlle Valley,[92] Gorseddau and Prince of Wales quarries,[93] Ffestiniog and Porthmadog, including the Ffestiniog Railway,[94] and Abergynolwyn and Bryn Eglwys quarry, including the Talyllyn Railway. | WIKI |
| Most of the workforce in the main slate-producing areas of North Wales were drawn from the local area, with little immigration from outside Wales. | WIKI |
| The industry had a considerable influence on the culture of the area and on that of Wales as a whole. | WIKI |