Afon Glaslyn
Afon Glaslyn is a river in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. While not of great significance in terms of its length, it is one of Gwynedd's primary rivers, and has greatly influenced the landscape in which it flows.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in North Wales
- Also known as: “Glaslyn” and “River Glaslyn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Porthmadog Harbour railway station and Boston Lodge Halt railway station.
Porthmadog Harbour railway station
Railway station
Porthmadog Harbour railway station in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales. It is the passenger terminus of two narrow gauge railways: the Ffestiniog Railway, which was opened in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the Quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the sea port of Porthmadog, for export by sea; and the Welsh Highland Railway, incorporated in 1923, which ran to Dinas.
Boston Lodge Halt railway station
Railway station
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Boston Lodge Halt in North Wales is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea.
Masonic Hall
Community center
Photo: Arthur C Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Masonic Hall is a community center.
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.
Afon Glaslyn
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Afon Glaslyn” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Afon Glaslyn”
- Cebuano: “Afon Glaslyn”
- Dutch: “Afon Glaslyn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر افون جلاسلين”
- French: “Afon Glaslyn”
- German: “Afon Glaslyn”
- Irish: “Afon Glaslyn”
- Japanese: “グラスリン川”
- Swedish: “Afon Glaslyn”
- Venetian: “Fiume Afon Glaslyn”
- Welsh: “Afon Glaslyn”
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