Betws Garmon
Betws Garmon is a community and small hamlet outside Waunfawr and near Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales. It has a population of 249. The summit of Snowdon lies within the community boundaries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Garmon’s Church and Betws Inn.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waunfawr and Rhosgadfan.
Waunfawr
Village
Photo: Ian Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Waunfawr is a village and community, 6 kilometres SE of Caernarfon, near the Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd, in Wales.
Rhosgadfan
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly part of the historic county of Caernarfonshire, and within the community of Llanwnda. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, one of the greatest Welsh-language writers of the 20th century; her childhood home is now a museum. Rhosgadfan is situated 2 miles west of Betws Garmon.
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. Y Fron is situated 2½ miles southwest of Betws Garmon.
Betws Garmon
- Type: Hamlet with 245 residents
- Description: village and community in Gwynedd, Wales
- Categories: village, community, and locality
- Location: Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.09352° or 53° 5′ 37″ northLongitude
-4.18375° or 4° 11′ 2″ westPopulation
245Elevation
909 feet (277 metres)Open location code
9C5Q3RV8+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 272488602OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2655795Wikidata ID
Q3396764
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Betws Garmon” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Betws Garmon”
- Breton: “Betws Garmon”
- Catalan: “Betws Garmon”
- Cebuano: “Betws Garmon”
- Cornish: “Betws Garmon”
- Dutch: “Betws Garmon”
- French: “Betws Garmon”
- Irish: “Betws Garmon”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Betws Garmon”
- Swedish: “Betws Garmon”
- Welsh: “Betws Garmon”
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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 “Betws Garmon”. Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.