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Tramway
Great Orme Tramway, Great Orme Tramway, Great Orme Tramway, Great Orme Tramway, Great Orme Tramway, Great Orme Tramway: Tramshot, Historic trams collide in Llandudno, Ride the T and Discover the Great Orme, The Great Orme Railway
An Assessment of Recent Field Work on the Great Or
Observations on field work at Llety'r Filiast, Pen y Dinas, Mynydd Isaf, Badger's Cave, Pen Trwyn and Ffynnon Rufeinig.
Area 2000: The Great Orme (Pen y Gogarth)
A report by Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, which includes area history, a map, an aerial photograph showing ancient features such as fields, and a brief discussion of the area's historic landscape characteristics.
Conwy County Borough Council (CCBC) Unitary Develo
Links to the draft version of the UDP in PDF. Chapter 3 (ST4 and ST5) and Chapter 5 (introduction, E10, E15, E18 and E22) include special regulations aimed at conserving the Orme's landscape beauty, and unique ecological, archaeological and geological significance.
Conwy County Borough Council Countryside Services:
The official council website includes an introduction to the Orme, its wildlife and its attractions; the management plan for the country park; details of conservation events, and information for schools.
Great Orme Copper Mines
Visitor's photographs taken in November 2001.
Great Orme Hang Gliding and Paragliding Flying Sit
Site description and map with take off and landing notes. Details of the North Wales Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club.
Great Orme Management Plan CADW
Aerial photographs of medieval ridge and furrow farming, Second World War gunnery school site, and surface copper mining sites of 1840's.
Great Orme Mines
Official website of the mines attraction with pictures and information on archaeology, geology, prices, and visiting the visitor centre, audio visual, underground mines, tea room and shop.
Great Ormes Head Model Glyder Flying
A description, with photographs, of model flying.
Kashmir Goats on the Great Orme
Information about the goats and over 50 photographs.
Limestone Pavement
Photographs of this geological feature.
Limestone Pavement Soil
Photograph and discussion of the brown rendzina and humic rendzina soil types.
Llandudno and the Great Orme
Describing the Haulfre Gardens, the Happy Valley, St Tudno's Church, the Free Trade Loaf and other antiquities.
Llandudno Bardic Stone Circle and Archaeology
A modern circle built for the Eisteddfod of 1963. Illustrated together with a neolithic standing stone, the Cromlech ancient burial chamber, the bronze age copper mine and the ancient stone rows.
Mining in Llandudno, the Great Orme Mines
Bronze Age and later mining, old and new mines and the later Ty Gwyn mine, description with map of 1861, metallurgy and geology.
School Visit to the Copper Mines
A report written by local primary school children on their class visit to the mines.
The Great Orme
Information about the Orme and its history, archaeology, ecology, mining, shipwreck and goats.
The Great Orme Copper Mines
Includes a historical sketch of what may possibly have been the world's largest Bronze Age copper mining complex.
The Great Orme Exploration Society
Provides membership and contact information, also a profile of the society formed in 1985 to organise exploration and interpretation of the ancient copper mines.
The Modern Antiquarian - Great Orme Mine
Photographs of the Bronze-Age Copper Mines and of two other antiquities, the 'stone rows' and Llety'r Filiast (Cromlech burial chamber).
The Rest and be Thankful Café
Details are given of its location on the Marine Drive and of the opening times. The café is also an information centre and a base for the Llandudno Heritage Trust.
Wales Underground - Great Orme Copper Mines
Describing the history, archaeology and geology of the 3,500 year old Bronze Age Copper Mines, now open to the public.