Minffordd
Minffordd is a village within the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It is situated on the A487 road between Porthmadog and Penrhyndeudraeth, and in the community of the latter.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Gwynedd, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Mynfford”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Minffordd railway station and Ynys Gifftan.
Minffordd railway station
Railway station
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Minffordd railway station is a pair of adjacent stations on separate lines in Gwynedd, Wales. The mainline station opened as Minfford Junction on 1 August 1872 at the point where the then recently built Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway line from Dovey Junction to Pwllheli passes under the earlier narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway.
Ynys Gifftan
Island
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Ynys Gifftan is an island near the south east shore of Traeth Bach, the Dwyryd estuary near Portmeirion in Gwynedd, north Wales. There is a public footpath to it across the estuary marked on Ordnance Survey maps but has no definable marks that make it obvious; it can be reached on foot at low tide and is 38 metres high.
Castell Deudraeth
Hotel
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Castell Deudraeth is a former manor house approximately 0.5 km NE of Portmeirion in Gwynedd, North Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portmeirion and Porthmadog.
Portmeirion
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Portmeirion is an Italian renaissance-style village on the coast of North Wales, most famous for being the setting of the cult television program The Prisoner.
Porthmadog
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Porthmadog, formerly Portmadoc, is a small coastal town in Gwynedd with a population of 4,000. It has a picturesque harbour. 19th-century wharves survive, but the harbour is used by leisure yachts.
Talsarnau
Village
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Talsarnau is a village and community in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. Its population was 525 in 2001, and had increased to 550 at the 2011 Census. Talsarnau is situated 2 miles southeast of Minffordd.
Minffordd
- Category: locality
- Location: Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.92534° or 52° 55′ 31″ northLongitude
-4.08893° or 4° 5′ 20″ westElevation
79 feet (24 metres)Open location code
9C4QWWG6+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 29209287OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Minffordd” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Minffordd”
- Breton: “Minffordd”
- Dutch: “Minffordd”
- French: “Minffordd”
- Russian: “Минфорт”
- Welsh: “Minffordd (Porthmadog)”
- Welsh: “Minffordd”
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Notable Places Nearby
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