Rhyd
Rhyd is a small village in the Welsh County of Gwynedd, located on the B4410 road, halfway between Maentwrog and Llanfrothen. Situated on an elevated site within the Snowdonia National Park, the village has views of the Moelwyns, notably Moelwyn Bach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Gwynedd, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Rhyd, Gwynedd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tan-y-Bwlch railway station and Plas Brondanw.
Tan-y-Bwlch railway station
Railway station
Photo: Christian Guthier, CC BY 2.0.
Tan-y-Bwlch railway station is the principal intermediate passenger station on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea.
Plas Brondanw
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plas Brondanw in Garreg, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, North Wales, was the family home of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of the Italianate village Portmeirion, and elements of similar architectural styles can be seen at both locations.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanfrothen and Tan-y-Bwlch.
Llanfrothen
Village
Llanfrothen is a hamlet and community in the county of Gwynedd, Wales, between the towns of Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog and is 108.1 miles from Cardiff.
Tan-y-Bwlch
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tan-y-Bwlch lies in the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales and is primarily known as the location of Tan-y-Bwlch railway station, on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway.
Croesor
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croesor is a small village in Gwynedd, Wales, located at the foot of Cnicht, in Cwm Croesor, in the community of Llanfrothen. The Croesor Tramway travelled along the bed of the cwm, before rising steeply to Bwlch Rhosydd via Croesor Incline. Croesor is situated 1½ miles north of Rhyd.
Rhyd
- Category: locality
- Location: Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.95809° or 52° 57′ 29″ northLongitude
-4.02962° or 4° 1′ 47″ westElevation
459 feet (140 metres)Open location code
9C4QXX5C+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 29216982OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Rhyd” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Rhyd”
- Dutch: “Rhyd, Gwynedd”
- French: “Rhyd”
- Irish: “Rhyd”
- Welsh: “Rhyd (Gwynedd)”
- Welsh: “Rhyd, Gwynedd”
- Welsh: “Rhyd”
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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 “Rhyd”. Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.