Corris Uchaf ( en, Upper Corris) is a village lying in the south of the Snowdonia National Park in

Gwynedd Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, an ...

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...

. The slate quarries that surround Corris Uchaf are its most prominent feature.

Description

The village lies in the valley of the Afon Deri ( en, River Deri), and is threaded by the

A487 road The A487, officially the Fishguard to Bangor Trunk Road, is a trunk road in Wales that follows the coast from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in the south, to Bangor, Gwynedd, in the north. Route The road starts at a junction with the A40 in ...

, a trunk road between

Dolgellau Dolgellau () is a town and Community (Wales), community in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It was the traditional county town of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Merionet ...

and

Machynlleth Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a pop ...

. The

Afon Deri The Afon Deri (sometimes known as the ''Afon Corris'') is a river in Mid Wales. It flows from the eastern flank of Mynydd Ty-Glas down to Corris, where it joins the Afon Dulas that flows south to the Afon Dyfi. The river passes through the vil ...

runs into the

Afon Dulas The Afon Dulas, or North Dulas, is a river forming the border between Merionethshire/Gwynedd and Montgomeryshire/Powys in Wales. Another river called Afon Dulas joins the Dyfi from the south, upstream of its confluence with the North Dulas: loca ...

The quarries around the village are Abercwmeiddaw and Abercorris, Gaewern and Braichgoch. The quarry operations were owned by the Lloyd Family and Wincilate Welsh Slate/Inigo Jones were and are still run by John Lloyd. The

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horse-drawn

Upper Corris Tramway The Upper Corris Tramway was a gauge horse-worked tramway that connected the slate quarries around the villages of Corris and Corris Uchaf with the Corris Railway at Maespoeth Junction. It was just over long. History Opening The tramway ...

was part of the infrastructure which carried

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...

from the quarries to Machynlleth. Corris Uchaf has a garden of Italian Follies or

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built by Mark & Muriel Bourne, A trust was recently set up to care for the site. The village also contains a local authority homeless and probation hostel in the large building known as Rhianfa. Corris Uchaf NLW3361410

Corris Uchaf is also part of what is known as "The Mach Loop", a low fly zone for

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with the military prefix reference LFA7. In the 2010s, approximately 100 abandoned cars were discovered in the Cavern of Lost Souls.

Government

The village has a

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. The current representatives are Marit Olsson, Sharon Wells and the local councillor who often attends is John Pughe Roberts. The community council system replaced the old parish council system and tackles local issues, acts as a contact point between

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and residents for information and resource on many

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and

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issues and other problems

Notable residents

* Writer Geraint Goodwin lived in the village in 1938 and 1939. *

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Otto Freudenthal in 2006–2017.

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Government

Notable residents

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