Yr Aran
Yr Aran is a mountain peak on a ridge radiating south from Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain, with views of the summit of Snowdon, Moel Hebog and the Nantlle Ridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Geraint Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snowdon and Y Lliwedd.
Snowdon
Peak
Photo: Gdr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Snowdon, or Yr Wyddfa, is a mountain in Snowdonia in North Wales. It has an elevation of 1,085 metres above sea level, which makes it both the highest mountain in Wales and the highest in the British Isles south of the Scottish Highlands.
Y Lliwedd
Peak
Photo: Soloist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Y Lliwedd is a mountain, connected to Snowdon in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. Its summit lies 898 metres above sea level. The eastern flanks are steep cliffs rising above Glaslyn and Llyn Llydaw.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rhyd Ddu and Nantmor.
Rhyd Ddu
Rhyd-ddu is a small village in Snowdonia, North Wales which is a starting point for walks up Snowdon, Moel Hebog, Yr Aran and the Nantlle Ridge. It lies on the A4085 between Beddgelert and Caernarfon, at its junction with the B4418 to Nantlle and Penygroes. Rhyd Ddu railway station is one of the stops on the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and Porthmadog.
Nantmor
Village
Photo: William Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nantmor is a hamlet which lies about 1½ miles to the south of the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales. The current spelling of the name Nantmor is more modern – most old documents from the 16th to the 18th century record the name as Nanmor.
Yr Aran
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,451 feet
- Description: mountain (747.2m) in Gwynedd
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Beddgelert, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.04276° or 53° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
-4.08317° or 4° 4′ 59″ westElevation
2,451 feet (747 metres)Open location code
9C5Q2WV8+4POpenStreetMap ID
node 290246980OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Yr Aran” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yr Aran”
- Dutch: “Yr Aran”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل يار اران”
- French: “Yr Aran”
- Irish: “Yr Aran”
- Japanese: “アル・アラン”
- Ladin: “Yr Aran”
- Swedish: “Yr Aran”
- Welsh: “Yr Aran”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Yr Aran”. Photo: Geraint Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.