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Search on for Snowdon cafe name
New cafe impression

The Snowdonia National Park Authority is poised to choose a name for the new cafe in the £8.3m visitors' centre on the summit of Snowdon.

Members of the public are also suggesting names for the cafe, which will be completed by spring 2008.

The centre will replace the 71-year-old now-demolished building once labelled Britain's highest slum by Prince Charles.

The authority said it was looking for something catchy and easily remembered.

It will announce the name of the new cafe on Wednesday.

"We're looking for something short, something quite catchy, something that would be easily remembered by everyone and also something that everybody can say," said Snowdonia National Park's Llinos Angharad.

Suggestions already received by the BBC include Caffe Cymylog (Cloudy Cafe), Coffi Cymylog (Cloudy Coffee), Summit Special, Dragons Den and Snowdrop Cafe.

The assembly government has given £3m to the project and another £4m has come from European Objective One funds. A further £350,000 was raised by a public appeal.

Many thousands of walkers and visitors used the old summit building, which was built in 1935. It was designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the founder of the Italianate village Portmeirion on the Gwynedd coast.

The new centre will have facilities giving visitors the chance to learn more about Wales' highest mountain and its environment.

It will also provide weather information, advice on routes as well as refreshments and shelter.




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