Aberdaron
Aberdaron is a village of almost 1,000 people in Gwynedd. About three quarters of the community speak the Welsh language. It sits along a beautiful coast, and tourism has joined sheep-rearing as the village's main economic activity.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Hywyn’s Church, Aberdaron and Castell Odo, Aberdaron.
St Hywyn’s Church, Aberdaron
Church
Photo: Keith Ruffles, CC BY 3.0.
The Church of St Hywyn, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales, is a parish church dating from the 12th century. Its origins are earlier, as a clas church from the 5th to the 7th centuries.
Castell Odo, Aberdaron
Archaeological site
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castell Odo, Aberdaron is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Y Rhiw.
Y Rhiw
Hamlet
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Y Rhiw is a small village on the south west tip of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. The village forms part of the community of Aberdaron. From the village there are views towards Snowdonia. Nearby is the National Trust owned Plas yn Rhiw. Y Rhiw is situated 3½ miles east of Aberdaron.
Aberdaron
- Type: Village with 897 residents
- Description: village and community in Gwynedd, Wales
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.8051° or 52° 48′ 18″ northLongitude
-4.7126° or 4° 42′ 45″ westPopulation
897Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ADROpen location code
9C4QR74P+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1507164883OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Aberdaron” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبردارون”
- Basque: “Aberdaron”
- Basque: “Anelog”
- Basque: “Rhoshirwaun”
- Breton: “Aberdaron”
- Catalan: “Aberdaron”
- Cebuano: “Aberdaron”
- Chinese: “Aberdaron”
- Chinese: “阿伯达伦”
- Chinese: “阿貝達隆”
- Chinese: “阿贝达隆”
- Cornish: “Aberdaron”
- Czech: “Aberdaron”
- Dutch: “Aberdaron”
- French: “Aberdaron”
- Galician: “Aberdaron”
- German: “Aberdaron”
- Irish: “Aberdaron”
- Italian: “Aberdaron”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aberdaron”
- Northern Sami: “Aberdaron”
- Ossetian: “Абердарон”
- Scots: “Aberdaron”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aberdaron”
- Slovak: “Aberdaron”
- Spanish: “Aberdaron”
- Swedish: “Aberdaron”
- Vietnamese: “Aberdaron”
- Welsh: “Aberdaron”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Aberdaron”. Photo: Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0.