Pen Benar
Pen Benar is a point in Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales. Pen Benar is situated nearby to the village Llangian, as well as near Mynytho.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Llŷn and Abersoch Lifeboat Station.
Llŷn
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Llŷn is an area in the county of Gwynedd, North Wales. It is, broadly speaking, the peninsula sticking out westwards beyond Snowdonia. Its beaches and headlands rival those of the better known Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in south-west Wales.
Abersoch Lifeboat Station
Building
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Abersoch Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution search and rescue operations at Abersoch in Gwynedd, Wales. A station was opened in 1869 but was moved to become Penrhyndhu Lifeboat Station from 1894 until 1931.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abersoch and Llangian.
Abersoch
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Abersoch is a village in Llŷn particularly favoured for sailing. The village and the roads to the headlands west of it tend to get very crowded. Packed with holiday homes, making housing unaffordable to most locals, it becomes a bit of a ghost town outside of the main tourist season.
Llangian
Village
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Llangian is a small village and former civil parish on the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It is located 1 mile north west of Abersoch, in the community of Llanengan.
Mynytho
Village
Photo: Peter Shone, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mynytho is a small village in the parish of Llanengan near the southern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in northwestern Wales. It consists of a few houses and some farmland.
Pen Benar
- Type: Point
- Also known as: “Aber Soch Point”
- Category: landform
- Location: Llanengan, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.83333° or 52° 50′ northLongitude
-4.5° or 4° 30′ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
9C4QRGM2+82GeoNames ID
2655916
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Discover Pen Benar from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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