Shaky Bridge Traditional Cache
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Suggested Parking is on the old A5 main road at N53*12.405 W004*05.815
You are looking for a medium 6 x 4 Plastic lock seal container, well within reach from the footpath, there is no need to cross any fences or go near the river itself, please replace as found.
This little walk will take you along part of a footpath that my mother and farther used many years ago, walking from Tregarth to my Grandparents house at Tan Lon, crossing the river Ogwen at Shaky Bridge, were we used to stop for a picnic in a field not far from an interesting old Mill.
Felin Cochwillan is a well-preserved large estate corn mill situated on a loop of the Ogwen River, Close to Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. It retains good late 19th Century detail in its external character, and inside a virtually complete set of mill machinery, including stones and a drying kiln.The first reference to a mill on the site appears in a register of the Lands of Cochwillan estate, which is dated 1560, but may have been a copy of an earlier manuscript, the remains of the original mill can still be seen to this day.
The current mill was built by a William's family about two hundred years ago – the exact date is not known, as the original deeds were lost in a fire. It was built as a fulling mill, which was used to prepare cloth (also called a Pandy), and operated as a home industry. In the late 18th Century they started using diluted sulphuric acid as a detergent, this caused damage to the salmon and sea trout fishing, so the mill was closed and bought by the Penrhyn estate and converted into a corn mill.
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