Llanaelhaearn
Llanaelhaearn is a village on the Llŷn Peninsula in the county of Gwynedd, Wales. Located in the community of Trefor a Llanaelhaearn which also includes the larger village of Trefor and has a population of 1,067, increasing to 1,117 at the 2011 Census.Photo: Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yr Eifl and Tre’r Ceiri.
Yr Eifl
Peak
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yr Eifl, sometimes called the Rivals in English, is a group of hills on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. On a clear day, the views from the highest summit reach as far as the Isle of Man, the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland and the Lake District, as well as the entire sweep of Cardigan Bay.
Tre’r Ceiri
Archaeological site
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tre'r Ceiri is a hillfort dating back to the Iron Age. The name means "town of the giants", from cewri, plural of cawr, "giant". The settlement is 450 metres above sea level on the slopes of Yr Eifl, a mountain on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, north-western Wales.
Gyrn Ddu
Peak
Photo: Nia.owain, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gyrn Ddu is a hill near the northeastern corner of the Llŷn Peninsula in the community of Llanaelhaearn in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales. It forms the western half of a wider upland area, another significant top of which is the 510 m summit of Bwlch Mawr to the east.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trefor and Nant Gwrtheyrn.
Trefor
Village
Photo: David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trefor is a village on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, in Gwynedd, Wales. It had a population of 1,067 at the 2021 Census. Trefor is in the community of Trefor a Llanaelhaearn, and Llithfaen is nearby.
Nant Gwrtheyrn
Hamlet
Photo: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nant Gwrtheyrn is a Welsh Language and Heritage Centre, located near the village of Llithfaen on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, in northwest Wales. Nant Gwrtheyrn is situated 2½ miles west of Llanaelhaearn.
Clynnog Fawr
Village
Photo: Rhion, Public domain.
Clynnog Fawr, often simply called Clynnog, is a village and community on the north coast of Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is in the historic county of Caernarfonshire. Clynnog Fawr is situated 3½ miles northeast of Llanaelhaearn.
Llanaelhaearn
- Type: Village with 1,120 residents
- Description: village in Trefor a Llanaelhaearn, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.9768° or 52° 58′ 36″ northLongitude
-4.4029° or 4° 24′ 10″ westPopulation
1,120Elevation
689 feet (210 metres)Open location code
9C4QXHGW+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1507179229OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7300642Wikidata ID
Q3398834
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Llanaelhaearn” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Llanaelhaern”
- Breton: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Bulgarian: “Ланаелхаеарн”
- Catalan: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Cebuano: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Chinese: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Cornish: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Dutch: “Llanaelhaearn”
- French: “Llanaelhaearn”
- German: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Irish: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Italian: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Scots: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Swedish: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Welsh: “Llanaelhaearn”
- Welsh: “Llanaelhaiarn”
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Explore places such as Graig Ddu and Trywn y Tal.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Aelhaearn’s Church and Ysgol Gynradd Llanaelhaearn.
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