Arthog
Arthog is a village, post town and community in the Meirionnydd area in Gwynedd, north Wales including the villages of Fairbourne and Friog. It is located on the A493, approximately 8 miles west of Dolgellau, and had a population of 1,010 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,031 at the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Croker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 977 residents
- Description: village and community in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Capel Arthog”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chwarel Ty’n-y-Coed and Morfa Mawddach railway station.
Morfa Mawddach railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Morfa Mawddach railway station is an unstaffed station located on the outskirts of the village of Arthog in Gwynedd, Wales, on the Cambrian Coast line between Machynlleth and Pwllheli.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barmouth and Fairbourne.
Barmouth
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Barmouth is a seaside town and community in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales; it lies on the estuary of the Afon Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. Located in the historic county of Merionethshire, the Welsh form of the name is derived from aber and the river's name, Mawddach.
Fairbourne
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Fairbourne is a seaside village in Gwynedd, Wales. Located on the coast of Barmouth Bay in Arthog community, to the south of the estuary of the River Mawddach, it is surrounded by Snowdonia National Park.
Bontddu
Village
Photo: Anonymous, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bontddu is a small settlement just east of Barmouth, near the town of Dolgellau in Gwynedd, Wales. It is in the community of Llanelltyd. Bontddu is situated 3 miles northeast of Arthog.
Arthog
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Arthog, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.71165° or 52° 42′ 42″ northLongitude
-4.00778° or 4° 0′ 28″ westPopulation
977Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ATGOpen location code
9C4QPX6R+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1461616424OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Arthog” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Arthog”
- Breton: “Arthog”
- Bulgarian: “Артхог”
- Catalan: “Arthog”
- Cebuano: “Arthog”
- Chinese: “Arthog”
- Cornish: “Arthog”
- Dutch: “Arthog”
- French: “Arthog”
- German: “Arthog”
- Irish: “Arthog”
- Italian: “Arthog”
- Japanese: “アルソグ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Arthog”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Arthog”
- Spanish: “Arthog”
- Swedish: “Arthog”
- Welsh: “Arthog”
- Welsh: “Capel Arthog”
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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 “Arthog”. Photo: Dave Croker, CC BY-SA 2.0.