Waunfawr
Waunfawr is a village and community, 6 kilometres SE of Caernarfon, near the Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd, in Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,460 residents
- Description: village and community in Gwynedd, Wales
- Also known as: “Waenfawr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waunfawr railway station and St Garmon’s Church.
Waunfawr railway station
Railway station
Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.
Waunfawr is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking, to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the London and North Western Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rhosgadfan and Caeathro.
Rhosgadfan
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly part of the historic county of Caernarfonshire, and within the community of Llanwnda. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, one of the greatest Welsh-language writers of the 20th century; her childhood home is now a museum. Rhosgadfan is situated 2 miles southwest of Waunfawr.
Caeathro
Village
Photo: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caeathro is a village situated on the A4085 road between Caernarfon and Waunfawr in Gwynedd, northwest Wales. It is approximately 2 km from Caernarfon and 1.5 km from Waunfawr, and is part of the community of Waunfawr. Caeathro is situated 2½ miles northwest of Waunfawr.
Cwm-y-glo
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cwm-y-glo is a small village in Wales, 4+1⁄2 miles east of Caernarfon, between Llanberis and Llanrug. It is in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd UK constituency, the community of Llanrug, and the Gwynedd Council electoral ward. Cwm-y-glo is situated 2½ miles northeast of Waunfawr.
Waunfawr
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Waunfawr, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.10967° or 53° 6′ 35″ northLongitude
-4.20054° or 4° 12′ 2″ westPopulation
1,460Elevation
482 feet (147 metres)Open location code
9C5Q4Q5X+VQOpenStreetMap ID
node 30843019OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2634915Wikidata ID
Q2983932
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Waunfawr” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Waunfawr”
- Breton: “Waunfawr”
- Catalan: “Waunfawr”
- Cebuano: “Waunfawr”
- Chinese: “Waunfawr”
- Cornish: “Waunfawr”
- Dutch: “Waunfawr”
- French: “Waenfawr”
- French: “Waunfawr”
- Galician: “Waunfawr”
- German: “Waenfawr”
- German: “Waunfawr”
- Indonesian: “Waunfawr”
- Irish: “Waunfawr”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Waunfawr”
- Polish: “Waunfawr”
- Russian: “Уайнваур”
- Scots: “Waunfawr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Waunfawr”
- Spanish: “Waenfawr”
- Spanish: “Waunfawr”
- Swedish: “Waunfawr”
- Vietnamese: “Waunfawr”
- Welsh: “Waenfawr”
- Welsh: “Waunfawr”
- Welsh: “Y Waunfawr”
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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 “Waunfawr”. Photo: Ian Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.