The Blaen y Cwm quarry was a slate quarry located east of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales. It was first worked in some time between 1813 and 1818 and sporadically after that until 1914. The quarry was connected to the Ffestiniog Railway at Duffws Station via the Rhiwbach Tramway.
Blaen y Cwm and the nearby Cwt y Bugail quarry are both situated on Blaen y Cwm farm, an area of around 500 acres in Penmachno which was owned until the 1860s by the Wynne family of Peniarth. The Wynne family attempted to sell the farm in 1813 by auction, and the sale document mentioned that veins of slate ran through the property. The farm did not sell, but quarrying probably began shortly afterwards and the first indication of quarrying activity on the Blaen y Cwm site is a map from 1818 that shows a modest quarry there. These early workings continued for some years on a small scale, for the farm was again offered for auction in 1826, when it was noted that a 'valuable slate quarry has been opened', but again a sale did not occur. Thomas Roberts, who lived at Betws-y-Coed but later moved to Penmachno, was the first person known to have worked the quarry, creating one of the upper levels, which was probably the quarry site later known as Gregory's Twll, close to the route of the tramway branch which later served Bwlch y Slaters quarry.
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