These cottages were built in 1776 and demolished in 1936. In conjunction with the Copper Mines on the Great Orme, a dozen cottages were built on the West Shore Sand Dunes in 1783. Another terrace of them had been built in 1776, running at right angles to the sea and stood across the southern gable of the Gogarth Abbey Hotel until 1936. One of the old cottages still exists and it is tucked away at the end of Abbey Place, a cul de sac with an interesting walled channel through which a constant river flows out of the mountain (and into the Model Yacht Pond, built in 1896). The river emerges from the stone lined exit of an 874 yard long adit, or drainage tunnel, from the New Mine. This was completed in 1842, after eight years and eight months of continuous excavation by a team of twelve miners, who worked in shifts, night and day.
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