Rhostryfan
Rhostryfan is a village in Llanwnda, Gwynedd, Wales. Rhostryfan is situated nearby to the village Rhosgadfan, as well as near Llanwnda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tryfan Junction railway station and Dinas railway station.
Tryfan Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tryfan Junction is a junction station on the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways for the main line and the Bryngwyn Branch. Opened in 1877, it closed in 1936 and the building fell into ruin. It was reopened as a request stop in 2011, and the station renovated.
Dinas railway station
Railway station
Photo: NoelWalley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dinas is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate for trans-shipment to the LNWR.
Moel Tryfan
Peak
Moel Tryfan is a small mountain near the villages of Rhosgadfan, Y Fron and Betws Garmon, in northern Gwynedd. The higher and more famous peak of Tryfan above Dyffryn Ogwen has also sometimes been referred to as "Moel Tryfan" in the past. Moel Tryfan is situated 1½ miles southeast of Rhostryfan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rhosgadfan and Llanwnda.
Rhosgadfan
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly part of the historic county of Caernarfonshire, and within the community of Llanwnda. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, one of the greatest Welsh-language writers of the 20th century; her childhood home is now a museum.
Llanwnda
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanwnda is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, Wales. The community has a population of 1,994 as taken at the 2011 Census. It is situated about 3 miles to the south of Caernarfon, and 5 miles south-west of Llanrug.
Bontnewydd
Village
Photo: Bill Payer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bontnewydd is a small village and community with a population of 1,162 located on the A487 road 1+2⁄3 miles south of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales, close to the river Gwyrfai, 2 miles from its outflow into Foryd Bay.
Rhostryfan
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Llanwnda, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.09604° or 53° 5′ 46″ northLongitude
-4.24763° or 4° 14′ 52″ westElevation
443 feet (135 metres)Open location code
9C5Q3QW2+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 30843590OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
13275308
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