Llyn Padarn
Llyn Padarn is a glacially formed lake in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, North Wales, and is an example of a moraine dammed lake. The lake is approximately 2 miles long and at its deepest point is 94 feet deep, and is one of the largest natural lakes in Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Cei Llydan railway station and Dolbadarn Castle.
Cei Llydan railway station
Railway station
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Cei Llydan is an intermediate railway station on the Llanberis Lake Railway, located in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. Most of the LLR was laid around 1970 on part of the trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway.
Dolbadarn Castle
Castle
Dolbadarn Castle is a fortification built by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great during the early 13th century, at the base of the Llanberis Pass, in northern Wales.
National Slate Museum
Museum
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The National Slate Museum is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanberis and Dinorwig.
Llanberis
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Llanberis is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake Llyn Padarn and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.
Dinorwig
Village
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Dinorwig, historically spelled as Dinorwic in English, is a village located high above Llyn Padarn, near Llanberis, in Wales. The name is shared with the fort of Dinas Dinorwig, also within the community of Llanddeiniolen, on a foothill 6 kilometres from Dinorwig village and 3 kilometres from the Menai Strait and also with Port Dinorwic, the anglicised name of Y Felinheli.
Deiniolen
Village
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Deiniolen is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, at the foot of Elidir Fawr, in Llanddeiniolen Community. Deiniolen has views over Caernarfon and on a clear day, Holyhead Mountain and occasionally the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, can be seen.
Llyn Padarn
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales
- Category: body of water
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Llyn Padarn” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Llyn Padarn”
- Cebuano: “Llyn Padarn”
- Chinese: “Llyn Padarn”
- Dutch: “Llyn Padarn”
- French: “Llyn Padarn”
- Irish: “Llyn Padarn”
- Japanese: “パダルン湖”
- Lithuanian: “Llyn Padarn”
- Lithuanian: “Padarno ežeras”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Llyn Padarn”
- Russian: “Падарн”
- Scots: “Llyn Padarn”
- Spanish: “Llyn Padarn”
- Swedish: “Llyn Padarn”
- Twi: “Llyn Padarn”
- Welsh: “Llyn Padarn”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Fachwen and Gallt - y - foel.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Y Glyn and Pen y Bigil.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Llyn Padarn”. Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.