North Wales
Gwynedd
Llanddeiniolen

Dinorwig

Dinorwig, historically spelled as Dinorwic in English, is a village located high above , near , in . The name is shared with the fort of Dinas Dinorwig, also within the community of , on a foothill 6 kilometres from Dinorwig village and 3 kilometres from the and also with Port Dinorwic, the anglicised name of .
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  • Type: Village with 200 residents
  • Description: village in Gwynedd, Wales
  • Also known as: “Dinorwic”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dolbadarn Castle and National Slate Museum.

Castle
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is a fortification built by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great during the early 13th century, at the base of the , in northern .

Museum
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The is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused , within the Padarn Country Park, , .

Railway station
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is an intermediate station on the Llanberis Lake Railway, located in , , Wales. Most of the LLR was laid around 1970 on part of the trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Deiniolen and Llanberis.

Village
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Wales, at the foot of , in Community. has views over and on a clear day, and occasionally the in , can be seen.

Photo: Hefin Owen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village, community and electoral ward in , northwest , on the southern bank of the lake and at the foot of , the highest mountain in .

Hamlet
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is a village in , Wales, lying just to the south of . The two villages form one urban unit. Both were built in the early 19th century to house workers in the Dinorwig slate quarry, and both suffered when the quarry was closed in 1969.

Dinorwig

Latitude
53.13454° or 53° 8′ 4″ north
Longitude
-4.11266° or 4° 6′ 46″ west
Population
200
Elevation
988 feet (301 metres)
Open location code
9C5Q4VMP+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3743148375
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2651238
Wiki­data ID
Q5278615
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dinorwig” goes by many names.
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  • Chinese: “迪諾里奇”
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  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dinorwig”
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  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dinorwig”
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  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dinorwig”
  • Serbian: “Dinorwig”
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  • Vlaams: “Dinorwig”
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  • Walloon: “Dinorwig”
  • Welsh: “Dinorwig”
  • Wolof: “Dinorwig”
  • Zulu: “Dinorwig”

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