Buan
Buan is a community in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, located on the Llŷn Peninsula. It includes the villages of Boduan and Rhydyclafdy, and has a population of 469, increasing to 484 at the 2011 Census.Photo: Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 477 residents
- Description: community in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Buan, Gwynedd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Llŷn and Carn Fadryn.
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.
Carn Fadryn
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Carn Fadryn, sometimes Carn Fadrun or Garn Fadryn, is a five-hectare Iron Age hillfort and is the name of the mountain on which the fort is situated. It lies in the centre of the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, and overlooks the village of Garnfadryn, Wales.
Garn Boduan
Peak
Photo: John S Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garn Boduan is an Iron Age hillfort and hill near Nefyn, on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales. In a survey in the 1950s the traces of over 170 round houses were identified on this site, and around 100 round houses are still visible on the ground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nefyn and Morfa Nefyn.
Nefyn
Photo: Phil Eptlett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nefyn is a town and community on the northwest coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales. Nefyn is popular with visitors for its sandy beach, and has one substantial hotel, a community pub and a beach cafe.
Morfa Nefyn
Village
Photo: Shirley Roulston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Morfa Nefyn is a village on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies on the crossroads of the B4417 and B4412. The village has seen a rise in popularity as house prices in nearby villages on the Llŷn Peninsula such as Abersoch and Llanbedrog have risen rapidly. Morfa Nefyn is situated 2½ miles northwest of Buan.
Llannor
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llannor is a village, parish and community located on the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. Historically in Caernarfonshire, it lies 1.7 miles north of Pwllheli and 18.0 miles south west of Caernarfon. Llannor is situated 3 miles east of Buan.
Buan
- Category: community
- Location: Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Buan” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Buan”
- Cebuano: “Buan (komunidad)”
- Cebuano: “Buan”
- Chinese: “Buan”
- Dutch: “Buan”
- French: “Buan”
- Irish: “Buan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Buan (Gwynedd)”
- Swedish: “Buan, Wales”
- Swedish: “Buan”
- Welsh: “Buan, Gwynedd”
- Welsh: “Buan”
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Localities in the Area
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