Morfa Bychan
Morfa Bychan is a village located in Gwynedd, North Wales, with a population of over 500, with an almost equal number of people born in England or Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Gordois, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moel y Gest and St Cynhaearn’s Church.
Moel y Gest
Peak
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Moel y Gest is a 263 m hill to the west of Porthmadog in North Wales. It is a very rocky hill with high topographic prominence because of the lower land that surrounds it on all sides, and qualifies as a Marilyn.
St Cynhaearn’s Church
Church
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Cynhaearn's Church is a redundant church standing in an isolated position on Ynyscynhaearn, a former island in Llyn Ystumllyn, 900 metres south of the village of Pentrefelin, near Criccieth in Gwynedd, Wales.
Porthmadog railway station
Railway station
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Porthmadog railway station serves the town of Porthmadog on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. The station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to Pwllheli, Harlech, Barmouth, Machynlleth, Shrewsbury and Birmingham. Porthmadog railway station is situated 2 miles northeast of Morfa Bychan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Borth-y-Gest and Penmorfa.
Penmorfa
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penmorfa is a village, which is situated 2 miles north of Morfa Bychan.
Tremadog
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tremadog is a village in the community of Porthmadog, in Gwynedd, north west Wales; about one mile north of Porthmadog town centre. It was a planned settlement, founded by William Madocks, who bought the land in 1798. Tremadog is situated 2 miles northeast of Morfa Bychan.
Morfa Bychan
- Type: Village with 524 residents
- Description: village in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.91362° or 52° 54′ 49″ northLongitude
-4.16847° or 4° 10′ 7″ westPopulation
524Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9C4QWR7J+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 29209103OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12264820Wikidata ID
Q6911498
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Morfa Bychan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Morfa Bychan”
- Dutch: “Morfa Bychan”
- French: “Morfa Bychan”
- Irish: “Morfa Bychan”
- Spanish: “Morfa Bychan”
- Swedish: “Morfa Bychan”
- Welsh: “Morfa Bychan”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Morfa Bychan”. Photo: Peter Gordois, CC BY-SA 2.0.