Devil’s Appendix
The Devil's Appendix is the tallest single-drop waterfall in Wales and one of the tallest in the United Kingdom. It is a plunge style waterfall located on the Clogwyn y Geifr cliffs beside Twll Du in Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia, Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glyder Fawr and Llyn y Cŵn.
Glyder Fawr
Peak
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glyder Fawr is a mountain in Snowdonia, Wales, the highest peak in the Glyderau range at just over 1,000 metres. It is the fifth-highest mountain in Wales and has several walking and scrambling routes leading to its summit.
Y Garn
Peak
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Y Garn is a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales, part of the Glyderau. It is one of the Welsh 3000s — the 15 summits in Wales over 3,000 feet in height.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cwm Idwal and Nant Peris.
Cwm Idwal
Locality
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cwm Idwal is a cirque in the Glyderau range of mountains in northern Snowdonia, the national park in the mountainous region of North Wales. Its main interest is to hill walkers and rock climbers, but it is also of interest to geologists and naturalists, given its combination of altitude, aspect and terrain.
Nant Peris
Village
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Nant Peris is a village, which is situated 2 miles west of Devil’s Appendix.
Dinorwig
Village
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Dinorwig, historically spelled as Dinorwic in English, is a village located high above Llyn Padarn, near Llanberis, in Wales. The name is shared with the fort of Dinas Dinorwig, also within the community of Llanddeiniolen, on a foothill 6 kilometres from Dinorwig village and 3 kilometres from the Menai Strait and also with Port Dinorwic, the anglicised name of Y Felinheli. Dinorwig is situated 3½ miles northwest of Devil’s Appendix.
Devil’s Appendix
- Categories: cliff and body of water
- Location: Llandygai, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Devil’s Appendix” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Cebuano: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- German: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Indonesian: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Italian: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Persian: “آبشار دویل آپندیکس”
- Persian: “ابشار دویل اپندیکس”
- Spanish: “Devil’s Appendix”
- Spanish: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Swedish: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Welsh: “Clogwyn y Geifr”
- Welsh: “Nant Clogwyn y Geifr”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Llyn Idwal and Llyn Bochlwyd.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Devil’s Appendix”. Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.