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Bala Lake

Llyn Tegid, also known as Bala Lake or Lake Bala in English, is a large freshwater glacial lake in , Wales. The , which has its source on the slopes of in the mountains of , feeds the 3.7-by-0.5-mile lake.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Wales
  • Also known as: “Lake Bala”, “Lake Tegid”, “Llyn Tegid”, and “Pimblemere”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Llangower railway station and Pentrepiod Halt railway station.

Railway station
Llangower was a minor station opened by the GWR on the Ruabon to Barmouth line in 1929 on the southern shore of Llyn Tegid serving the hamlet of Llangower.

Railway station
Photo: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pentrepiod railway station is a small unstaffed railway halt on the Bala Lake Railway alongside the B4403. Trains will stop here by request only, and the station can only be accessed by means of footpaths around the lake.

Railway station
Photo: Ken Crosby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bala is the current terminus of the heritage Bala Lake Railway, in , Wales, since 1976. The site was formerly the location of the Bala Lake Halt railway station, a former station on the Ruabon to Barmouth line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Llangywer and Parc.

Village
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a community near , , Wales. It is in the historic county of , and is located on the south side of Llyn Tegid. In 2011 the population of was 260, with 67.2% of them able to speak Welsh.

Village
Photo: Rick Crowley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village.

Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a picturesque town of 2,000 people on the shores of Lake in , . It lies at the south-eastern edge of the . Excellent national centre for white water rafting and canoeing nearby.

Bala Lake

Latitude
52.88515° or 52° 53′ 7″ north
Longitude
-3.62308° or 3° 37′ 23″ west
Elevation
525 feet (160 metres)
Open location code
9C4RV9PG+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 154113061
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
2656611
Wiki­data ID
Q1335466
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Bala Lake” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Basque: “Tegid aintzira”
  • Breton: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Catalan: “Llac Tegid”
  • Catalan: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Cebuano: “Bala Lake”
  • Chinese: “巴拉湖”
  • Chuvash: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Chuvash: “Бала”
  • Dutch: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Esperanto: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Estonian: “Bala järv”
  • Finnish: “Llyn Tegid”
  • French: “lac Bala”
  • French: “Lac Bala”
  • German: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Hebrew: “אגם באלה”
  • Italian: “Lago di Bala”
  • Italian: “lago di Tegid”
  • Japanese: “バラ湖”
  • Latin: “Tegaeus Lacus”
  • Latvian: “Tegids”
  • Lithuanian: “Tegido ežeras”
  • Livvi: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Malay: “Tasik Bala”
  • Malay: “تاسيق بالا”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Polish: “Bala”
  • Russian: “Бала”
  • Russian: “Ллин-Тегид”
  • Slovenian: “Bala Lake”
  • Slovenian: “jezero Tegid”
  • Spanish: “Lago Bala”
  • Spanish: “Lago Tegid”
  • Swedish: “Llyn Tegid”
  • Turkish: “Bala Lake”
  • Venetian: “lago de Tegid”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Tegid”
  • “Llyn Tegid”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Llanycil and Lôn.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Coed Cerrig-llwydion and St Gwawr‘ s Church.

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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 “Bala Lake”. Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.