At check-in, guests receive a hard hat, head lamp, boots and a mountain guide. The journey — about 1,400 feet underground to the world's deepest hotel in the north Wales region of Snowdonia — takes ...

Opened in 1846, the quarry boomed during the Industrial Revolution, when a 17,000-strong workforce extracted half a million tons of the gray rock per year to export across the globe. Today, only above ...

The UN's cultural agency UNESCO on Wednesday added a Welsh slate mining landscape to its list of world heritage sites, making it the 32nd location in the UK to be awarded the status. The Slate ...

It's a major route that runs through some of the most stunning scenery in the UK and is very well-used by those living in the ...

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales is located in the United Kingdom, in the mountains of Snowdon massif. Six areas together represent an exceptional example of an industrial landscape which was ...

LONDON (Reuters) – The slate landscapes of northwest Wales have been added to the list of World Heritage Sites, UNESCO said on Wednesday, a boost for Britain after the city of Liverpool was stripped ...

A hiker found an abandoned Welsh building during her walk in Wales recently, but she spotted something more incredible nearby ...

The aftermath of a huge "landslide" at a historic slate quarry has been caught on camera. An eyewitness filmed clouds of dust billowing from part of Dinorwig Quarry following the reported slippage ...

Canaletto's 18th century painting, The Stonemason’s Yard, depicts stone workers in a Venetian city square. The National Gallery, London A Canaletto painting that spent four years hidden in a Welsh ...

"It's the scariest thing that has ever happened to me in my life - ever." Josh, 15, had joined friend Draigen and his mother Kate, an experienced climber, caver and adventurer, for what was meant to ...

LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - The slate landscapes of northwest Wales have been added to the list of World Heritage Sites, UNESCO said on Wednesday, a boost for Britain after the city of Liverpool was ...