North Wales
Gwynedd
Llanengan

Abersoch

Abersoch is a village in particularly favoured for sailing. The village and the roads to the headlands west of it tend to get very crowded. Packed with holiday homes, making housing unaffordable to most locals, it becomes a bit of a ghost town outside of the main tourist season.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include St Engan’s Church and St Cian’s Church.

Church
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St Engan's Church is an active in , , Wales. The village lies in the south of the , south-west of Abersoch.

Church
Photo: John S Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Building
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is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution search and rescue operations at Abersoch in , Wales. A station was opened in 1869 but was moved to become Penrhyndhu Lifeboat Station from 1894 until 1931.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Llanengan and Mynytho.

Village
Photo: Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village and community 1.2 mi around Abersoch in in north-west Wales. It had a population of 2,024 at the 2001 census, which had been reduced to 1,989 at the 2011 Census.

Village
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is a small village in the parish of near the southern coast of the in northwestern . It consists of a few houses and some farmland.

Village
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is a small village and former civil parish on the in the county of . It is located 1 mile north west of Abersoch, in the community of .

Abersoch

Latitude
52.8227° or 52° 49′ 22″ north
Longitude
-4.5075° or 4° 30′ 27″ west
Population
783
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
Open location code
9C4QRFFR+3X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29208014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2657788
Wiki­data ID
Q319710
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Abersoch” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Abersoch”
  • Breton: “Abersoch”
  • Bulgarian: “Аберсоч”
  • Cebuano: “Abersoch”
  • Danish: “Abersoch”
  • Dutch: “Abersoch”
  • French: “Abersoch”
  • German: “Abersoch”
  • Irish: “Abersoch”
  • Italian: “Abersoch”
  • Persian: “ابرسوچ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ابرسوچ”
  • Spanish: “Abersoch”
  • Swedish: “Abersoch”
  • Welsh: “Abersoch”

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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 “Abersoch”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.