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Nant Gwrtheyrn is a magical place, a remote Victorian Quarry village set on a 200 acre site in a secluded wooded valley overlooking Porthdinllaen Bay on the Llyn Peninsula. The approach on the steep “alpine” road is now suitable for coaches and enables car parking on the valley floor for access to the renovated village and the National Coastal Footpath of Wales and the mile long beach.
A complete £5m refurbishment of the listed cottages in 2009 provides 4* accommodation for up to 80 residential guests in en-suite bedrooms or self catered cottages and the new 180 cover function room offers catered events for a range of day and residential visitors. Nant Gwrtheyrn is now a popular venue throughout the year for weddings, parties, concerts and events as well as conferences and meetings .
The new cafe-bar opened in August 2009 offers a range of meals and snacks and a shop selling Welsh crafts and books. Admission to the village and heritage displays is free, with free parking for access also to the coastal path and beach. Nant Gwrtheyrn has been re-developed by a charity and is primarily a centre for teaching Welsh to Adults.The Heritage displays also illustrate the rejuvenation of the Welsh language and culture in recent years .Welsh taster sessions are offered subject to demand as well as a range of Welsh for Adults courses throughout the year .
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Nant
Gwrtheyrn
In a land of stories and legends, overlooked by the Iron age Hill
Fort at Tre’r Ceiri, the story of the valley from the medieval
farms and the quarries of the Victorian industrial revolution to
the modern day role of Nant Gwrtheyrn in the recent revival of the
Welsh language and culture is told in new interpretive displays
in the village. 
Major
developments took place at Nant Gwrtheyrn during 2010, which significantly
enhanced the visitor experience, with the opening of new Heritage
Displays in the old chapel and a “period house” which
offers an insight into life in the quarry village in 1910 and work
in the quarries when 2000 men were employed to quarry road stone
setts, which were then exported by sea to build the cobbled streets
of Manchester and Liverpool .
Be
sure to visit Nant Gwrtheyrn on your visit to North Wales, a warm
welcome awaits you at this stunning location where you are free
to wander under the watchful gaze of choughs, peregrine falcons
and wild goats and sometimes in the company of the seals and dolphins.
