Penrhyn Castle
Penrhyn Castle is a country house in Llandygai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, constructed in the style of a Norman castle. The Penrhyn Estate was founded by Ednyfed Fychan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Air shaft to Llandygai Tunnel and Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum.
Air shaft to Llandygai Tunnel
Building
Photo: Reading Tom, CC BY 2.0.
Air shaft to Llandygai Tunnel is a building.
Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
Museum
Photo: Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum was a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales. In the nineteenth century, Penrhyn Castle was the home of the Pennant family, owners of the Penrhyn slate quarry at Bethesda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llandygai and Talybont.
Llandygai
Village
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Llandygai is a small village and community on the A5 road between Bangor and Talybont in Gwynedd, Wales. It affords a view of the nearby Carneddau mountain range.
Talybont
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Talybont, is a small village to the southeast of the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the community of Llanllechid, and next to Llandygai. It had a population of 465 as of 2011.
Maesgeirchen
Suburb
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maesgeirchen is a large housing estate on the edge of the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, with roughly 4,000 inhabitants. It is the third-largest single housing estate in Wales behind Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, the second largest and Caia Park in Wrexham, which is the largest with nearly 12,000 inhabitants.
Penrhyn Castle
- Type: Estate
- Description: country house in Llandygái, Gwynedd, Wales
- Categories: castle, tower house, and agriculture
- Location: Llandygai, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Penrhyn Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Penrhyn gaztelua”
- Catalan: “Penrhyn Castle”
- Chinese: “彭林城堡”
- Danish: “Penrhyn Castle”
- Dutch: “Penrhyn Castle”
- Esperanto: “Burgo de Penrhyn”
- French: “Château de Penrhyn”
- French: “Penrhyn Castle”
- German: “Penrhyn Castle”
- Italian: “Penrhyn Castle”
- Japanese: “ペンリン城”
- Polish: “Zamek Penrhyn”
- Russian: “Замок Пенрин”
- Russian: “Пенрин”
- Spanish: “Penrhyn Castle”
- Swedish: “Penrhyn Castle”
- Welsh: “Castell Penrhyn”
- Welsh: “Castell y Penrhyn”
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