Porthmadog

Porthmadog, formerly Portmadoc, is a small coastal town in with a population of 4,000. It has a picturesque harbour. 19th-century wharves survive, but the harbour is used by leisure yachts.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Porthmadog railway station and Porthmadog Harbour railway station.

Railway station
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serves the town of on the in , Wales. The station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to , , , , and .

Railway station
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in , , , is the passenger terminus of two narrow gauge railways: the Ffestiniog Railway, which was opened in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the Quarries around to the sea port of Porthmadog, for export by sea; and the Welsh Highland Railway, incorporated in 1923, which ran to Dinas.

Railway station
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is the southern terminus of the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway and serves the western end of the town of in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portmeirion and Criccieth.

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is an Italian renaissance-style village on the coast of , most famous for being the setting of the cult television program The Prisoner.

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is a town in . It is one of the more easterly towns on the south coast of and overlooks Tremadog Bay. It is associated with the one time prime minister of the UK, David Lloyd George, who grew up in the nearby village of Llanystumdwy.

Porthmadog

Latitude
52.918° or 52° 55′ 5″ north
Longitude
-4.1455° or 4° 8′ 44″ west
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
Open location code
9C4QWV93+5R
Geo­Names ID
7298976
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