Llyn Cwellyn
Llyn Cwellyn is a reservoir in North Wales which supplies drinking water to parts of Gwynedd and Anglesey. It lies on Afon Gwyrfai in Nant y Betws between Moel Eilio and Mynydd Mawr in the northern part of Snowdonia National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Velela, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir lake in Gwynedd, Wales
- Also known as: “Llyn Quellan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Snowdon Ranger railway station and Plas-y-Nant railway station.
Snowdon Ranger railway station
Railway station
Photo: Vanoord, Public domain.
Snowdon Ranger is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1878 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking, to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the LNWR.
Plas-y-Nant railway station
Railway station
Photo: Velela, Public domain.
Plas-y-Nant is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway.
Foel Gron
Peak
Photo: Terry Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Foel Gron is a peak on the Moel Eilio ridge of hills/mountains in Snowdonia, North Wales. This ridge is used as a hiker's route from Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rhyd Ddu and Y Fron.
Rhyd Ddu
Rhyd-ddu is a small village in Snowdonia, North Wales which is a starting point for walks up Snowdon, Moel Hebog, Yr Aran and the Nantlle Ridge. It lies on the A4085 between Beddgelert and Caernarfon, at its junction with the B4418 to Nantlle and Penygroes. Rhyd Ddu railway station is one of the stops on the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and Porthmadog.
Y Fron
Village
Photo: Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Y Fron, also known locally as Cesarea, after the chapel, is a country village on the south-west side of Moel Tryfan, overlooking the Nantlle Valley, in North Wales, near Rhosgadfan and Carmel, on the tail of Mynydd Mawr, with epic views of Trum Y Ddysgl and Craig Cwm Silyn.
Nantlle
Village
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nantlle is a small village in the slate quarrying Nantlle Valley in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies on the north shore of Llyn Nantlle Uchaf and is part of the community of Llanllyfni. The population was 228 in 2011 with 42% born in England.
Llyn Cwellyn
- Category: body of water
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.07216° or 53° 4′ 20″ northLongitude
-4.15146° or 4° 9′ 5″ westElevation
702 feet (214 metres)Open location code
9C5Q3RCX+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 4263087OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirGeoNames ID
2651660Wikidata ID
Q3397946
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Llyn Cwellyn” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- Arabic: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- Cebuano: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- Dutch: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- French: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- Japanese: “クゥエシン湖”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- Russian: “Квэллин”
- Swedish: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- Twi: “Llyn Cwellyn”
- Welsh: “Llyn Cwellyn”
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Highlights include Nant y Betws and Llyn Bwlch-y-moch.
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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 “Llyn Cwellyn”. Photo: Velela, CC BY-SA 2.5.