Hirael

Places of Interest

Bangor Cathedral

Church

Photo: Denis Egan, CC BY 2.0.

Bangor Cathedral is the cathedral church of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol. The site of the present building of Bangor Cathedral has been in use as a place of Christian worship since the sixth century.

Bangor Library

Library

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bangor Mountain

Peak

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Bangor Mountain is a scarp face of a hill below which the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, Wales, sits. Though not a mountain in the true sense of the word it is so-called because of the way it rears up behind Bangor and appears mountainous, especially from the Glan Adda, High Street and Hirael areas of the city.

Places in the Area

Maesgeirchen

Suburb

Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Maesgeirchen is a large housing estate on the edge of the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, with roughly 4,000 inhabitants. It is the third-largest single housing estate in Wales behind Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, the second largest and Caia Park in Wrexham, which is the largest with nearly 12,000 inhabitants.

Llandygai

Village

Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Llandygai is a small village and community on the A5 road between Bangor and Talybont in Gwynedd, Wales. It affords a view of the nearby Carneddau mountain range.

Talybont

Village

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Talybont, is a small village to the southeast of the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the community of Llanllechid, and next to Llandygai. It had a population of 465 as of 2011. Talybont is situated 1½ miles southeast of Hirael.

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