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Deiniolen, CAERNARFON, LL55 3ND

I remember this reedy field being used to grow cereals in the late 1940s. A horse was used to draw the plough and the seed scattered by hand from an old tin bath held in place with a piece of rope around the farmer's neck. Corncrakes would nest in the corn and would create a racket at night time.

In the 1950s I used to walk along this lane every Saturday morning to collect a gallon of buttermilk from Mrs Evans, Ty'n Gerddi. At dinner time the buttermilk was added in copious quantities to mashed potatoes (to make a dish called "Tatws Laeth"). It would also be added to boiling water and black treacle and used as a medicine, known as "posal", to fight or ward off colds and flu. Then a gallon of buttermilk would cost one half penny. I see that buttermilk mashed potatoes has nowadays been discovered by London-based foodies and is recommended in fashionable magazines as part of a healthy diet.

Both are located on high ground above the village of Deiniolen. Cefn-y-waun chapel was decommissioned in the first decade of the 21atC.

The two places of worship were built on the moorland edge above the village of Deiniolen.

Cefn-y-Waun is also spelt Cefn-y-Waen. Both places of worship are located on heathland east of the former slate quarrying village of Deiniolen. Capel Cefn-y-Waun has since been decommissioned.

This road leads from 'Y Mynydd' (the mountain). Pobl y Mynydd (people of the mountain) i.e. of the upland smallholdings considered themselves a 'race' apart from Pobl y Pentra (village folk), and a superior one at that. Very few of the old stagers now remain, many of the mountain cottages have been purchased by incomers.

This ornate Calvinist chapel, also known as Capel Cefn y Waun, on the moorland edge was added to the list of chapels no longer viable and has been sold for conversion into a two houses for people with disabilities. It was the last of the four Calvinistic Methodist chapels in the Deiniolen area to be closed.

This fine Calvinistic Methodist Chapel is backed by a vestry and a chapel house. Image

This ornate Calvinist chapel, also known as Capel Cefn y Waun, on the moorland edge was added in the early 2000s to the list of chapels no longer viable and has been sold for conversion into two houses for people with disabilities. It was the last of the four Calvinistic Methodist chapels in the Deiniolen area to be closed the others being Disgwylfa, Ysgoldy and Dinorwig. https://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/6938/details/cefn-y-waun-welsh-calvinist-methodist-chapelcapel-cefn-y-waen-deiniolen