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Corra Linn, CAERNARFON, LL55 1YN

This is a dense cluster of houses packed on to an 'island' of non-Faenol Estate land and taking its name from a Wesleyan Methodist chapel of that name. The settlement was close to the quarry line which was bordered by the stone wall in the foreground.

These are typical former quarrymen dwellings. The Dinorwig Quarry Railway ran past Saron.

This village hall and community centre was built as a memorial to the men and women of the Bethel area lost in two World Wars.

This building was formerly Eglwys Teilo Sant a Church in Wales chapel of ease.

Cysegr Chapel stands on the B4366, about 3 miles from Caernarfon. It was opened in 1864 but had to be demolished 4 years later because it was unsafe. It was rebuilt and in the intervening years has had 10 ministers.

For almost ninety years there were no crossing gates or signals on the Dinorwig Quarry line. The only rule was that the train was to slow down to 10mph and blow its whistle within a quarter of a mile from the crossing. Here, on the main Bethel road, on 22 January, 1926, a slow moving paraffin lorry owned by the Vanwil company was hit by the train killing the occupants Thomas Williams 48 and William Williams 19, both of Caernarfon. The train carrying 87 wagons, and manned by two brothers William and Tomos Evans (driver and fireman), dragged the lorry for almost half a mile. At the inquest, held on the next day, the Caernarvonshire coroner, J Pentir Williams,(a cousin of my grandmother), ruled that these were accidental deaths, but recommended that gates and red flag men should henceforth be sited at each crossing. The recommendations were accepted by the Faenol Estate.

Cysegr is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.