Dinas Emrys
Dinas Emrys is a rocky and wooded hillock near Beddgelert in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. Rising some 76 m above the floor of the Glaslyn river valley, it overlooks the southern end of Llyn Dinas in Snowdonia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: Iron Age hillfort and castle probably erected by Prince Llewelyn II to guard the road to the mountain pass of Snowdon
- Also known as: “Cwm-Yr-Ala”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sygun Copper Mine and Tanronnen Inn.
Sygun Copper Mine
Photo: Stephen Elwyn RODDICK, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sygun Copper Mine is a Victorian copper mine which closed in 1903 but was renovated and reopened by the Amies family as a tourist attraction in 1986, focusing on audio-visual tours of the underground workings. Sygun Copper Mine is situated 1,300 feet south of Dinas Emrys.
Tanronnen Inn
Pub
Photo: Mark Percy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tanronnen Inn is a pub, which is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Dinas Emrys.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nantmor and Croesor.
Nantmor
Village
Photo: William Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nantmor is a hamlet which lies about 1½ miles to the south of the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales. The current spelling of the name Nantmor is more modern – most old documents from the 16th to the 18th century record the name as Nanmor. Nantmor is situated 2 miles south of Dinas Emrys.
Croesor
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croesor is a small village in Gwynedd, Wales, located at the foot of Cnicht, in Cwm Croesor, in the community of Llanfrothen. The Croesor Tramway travelled along the bed of the cwm, before rising steeply to Bwlch Rhosydd via Croesor Incline. Croesor is situated 3 miles southeast of Dinas Emrys.
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.
Dinas Emrys
- Categories: contour fort, archaeological site, Welsh princes‘ castles, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Beddgelert, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Dinas Emrys” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “dinas emrys”
- Cebuano: “Dinas Emrys Castle”
- Dutch: “Dinas Emrys”
- French: “Dinas Emrys”
- German: “Dinas Emrys”
- Hebrew: “דינס אמריס”
- Italian: “Dinas Emrys”
- Japanese: “ディナス・エムラス”
- Japanese: “ディナス・エムリス”
- Spanish: “Dinas Emrys”
- Swedish: “Dinas Emrys Castle”
- Welsh: “Castell Dinas Emrys”
- Welsh: “Cwm-Yr-Ala”
- Welsh: “Dinas Emrys”
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