Pen y Bigil
Pen y Bigil is a peak in Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Wales and has an elevation of 1,073 feet. Pen y Bigil is situated nearby to the hamlet Fachwen, as well as near the village Deiniolen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,073 feet
- Description: hill (327m) in Gwynedd
- Also known as: “Pen Y Bigil”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cei Llydan railway station and Penllyn railway station.
Cei Llydan railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cei Llydan is an intermediate railway station on the Llanberis Lake Railway, located in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. Most of the LLR was laid around 1970 on part of the trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway.
Penllyn railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penllyn railway station is the northern terminus of the Llanberis Lake Railway, located near Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. The station has no platform, but passengers are allowed to alight.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deiniolen and Dinorwig.
Deiniolen
Village
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Deiniolen is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, at the foot of Elidir Fawr, in Llanddeiniolen Community. Deiniolen has views over Caernarfon and on a clear day, Holyhead Mountain and occasionally the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, can be seen.
Dinorwig
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Clwt-y-bont
Hamlet
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clwt-y-bont is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, lying just to the south of Deiniolen. The two villages form one urban unit. Both were built in the early 19th century to house workers in the Dinorwig slate quarry, and both suffered when the quarry was closed in 1969.
Pen y Bigil
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.13712° or 53° 8′ 14″ northLongitude
-4.13016° or 4° 7′ 49″ westElevation
1,073 feet (327 metres)Open location code
9C5Q4VP9+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 3640711231OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12619775Wikidata ID
Q106709972
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Pen y Bigil” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Pen y Bigil”
- Welsh: “Pen y Bigil”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Fachwen and Pont Fawr.
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Highlights include Coed y Clegyr and Foel Gron.
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