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

Snowdonia National Park Snowdonia or Eryri (), is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of in area. It was the first to be designated of the three national parks in Wales, in 1951. Name and extent It was a commonly held belief that the nam ...

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. 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, a trunk road between

Dolgellau Dolgellau () is a town and 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 county of Merionethshire ( cy, Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd) ...

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 runs into the Afon Dulas 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 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 ro ...

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

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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 environmental, equality,

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and

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issues and other problems

Notable residents

* Writer

Geraint Goodwin Arthur Geraint Goodwin (1 May 1903 – 10 October 1941) was a Welsh journalist, novelist and short story writer from near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, who wrote about rural life on the Welsh border. His first novel, published in 1935, was the autobi ...

lived in the village in 1938 and 1939. * Classical composer Otto Freudenthal in 2006–2017.

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