Soar
Soar is a small village or hamlet in Gwynedd, Wales. It is located about 4 miles northeast of Harlech, close to Talsarnau and Llandecwyn. It has no school; children in the hamlet go to school in Talsarnau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Arthur C Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: hamlet in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Soar, Gwynedd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Soar Welsh Methodist Chapel and Talsarnau railway station.
Soar Welsh Methodist Chapel
Church
Photo: Arthur C Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Soar Welsh Methodist Chapel is a church.
Talsarnau railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Talsarnau railway station serves the village of Talsarnau on the estuary of the Afon Dwyryd in Gwynedd, Wales.
Tygwyn railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tygwyn railway station is located at a level crossing on the A496 between Harlech and Talsarnau near the estuary of the Afon Dwyryd in Gwynedd, Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Talsarnau and Eisingrug.
Talsarnau
Village
Photo: OLU, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Talsarnau is a village and community in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. Its population was 525 in 2001, and had increased to 550 at the 2011 Census.
Eisingrug
Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eisingrug is a rural hamlet near Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales. It is located to the southeast of Porthmadog. Formerly at the edge of the parish of Llandecwyn, the hamlet was served by the church of Saint Tecwyn in the hills above Llandecwyn, and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at the other end of the Bryn Bwbach to Esingrug road.
Llandecwyn
Hamlet
Photo: gwyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandecwyn is a hamlet near Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd, Wales. The bulk of the population is now located around Cilfor close to the A496 road and served by Llandecwyn railway station, with a cluster of under ten houses around the road junction at Capel Brontecwyn half a mile up the hill to the southeast, and other isolated houses and farms scattered across the hillsides. Llandecwyn is situated 1½ miles northeast of Soar.
Soar
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: Talsarnau, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.89835° or 52° 53′ 54″ northLongitude
-4.0586° or 4° 3′ 31″ westElevation
154 feet (47 metres)Open location code
9C4QVWXR+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 2387875496OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Soar” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Soar”
- Dutch: “Soar”
- French: “Soar”
- Welsh: “Soar, Gwynedd”
- Welsh: “Soar”
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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 “Soar”. Photo: Arthur C Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.