Cwm-y-glo
Cwm-y-glo is a small village in Wales, 4+1⁄2 miles east of Caernarfon, between Llanberis and Llanrug. It is in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd UK constituency, the community of Llanrug, and the Gwynedd Council electoral ward.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 995 residents
- Description: village in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Cwm y Glo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Penllyn railway station and Ysgol Brynrefail.
Penllyn railway station
Railway station
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Penllyn railway station is the northern terminus of the Llanberis Lake Railway, located near Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. The station has no platform, but passengers are allowed to alight.
Ysgol Brynrefail
School
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Ysgol Brynrefail is a bilingual comprehensive school for pupils aged 11–18. It is situated in Llanrug in Gwynedd, north Wales. Most of the school's pupils come from the villages of Llanrug, Bethel, Llanberis and the surrounding rural areas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brynrefail and Penisa’r Waun.
Brynrefail
Village
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Brynrefail is a small village in Gwynedd, Wales. The village is in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd UK constituency and the Gwynedd Council Ward of Penisa'r Waun.
Penisa’r Waun
Village
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Penisa'r-waun is a small village which is located 4 miles to the east of Caernarfon and one mile to the northeast of Llanrug on the A4244 in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
Clwt-y-bont
Hamlet
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Clwt-y-bont is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, lying just to the south of Deiniolen. 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.
Cwm-y-glo
- Category: locality
- Location: Llanrug, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.14086° or 53° 8′ 27″ northLongitude
-4.16604° or 4° 9′ 58″ westPopulation
995Elevation
820 feet (250 metres)Open location code
9C5Q4RRM+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 3394632564OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2651643Wikidata ID
Q3402521
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cwm-y-glo” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cwm y Glo”
- Breton: “Cwm-y-glo”
- Dutch: “Cwm y Glo”
- French: “Cwm y Glo”
- Welsh: “Cwm y Glo”
- Welsh: “Cwm-y-glo”
- Welsh: “Cwmyglo”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Cwm-y-glo”. Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.