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Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is in the county of , in . Aberystwyth, called the true capital of Wales by some, is a smallish town on the Ceredigion coast, just below the .
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  • Type: Town with 13,000 residents
  • Description: seaside and university town and community in Ceredigion, Wales
  • Also known as: “Aber” and “Aberystwith”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aberystwyth Castle and Aberystwyth railway station.

Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Grade I listed Edwardian fortress located in Aberystwyth, , . It was built in response to the First Welsh War in the late 13th century, replacing an earlier fortress located a mile to the south.

Railway station
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is located in the town of Aberystwyth, , Wales; it is served by passenger trains operated by Transport for Wales. It is the terminus of both the Cambrian Line and of the narrow-gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway.

Museum
Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a in Aberystwyth, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penparcau and Llanbadarn Fawr.

Village
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is a village and electoral ward in , , situated to the south of Aberystwyth. The original village was a hamlet, but the building of extensive Art Deco style semi-detached social housing from the 1920s on transformed it.

Suburb
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is a village and community in , Wales. It is on the outskirts of Aberystwyth next to and Southgate. It forms the eastern part of the continually built-up area of Aberystwyth.

Hamlet
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is a village, community and electoral ward in the county of , Mid-, south of the administrative centre Aberystwyth. village lies above the banks of the river in the Ystwyth Valley. is situated 2½ miles south of Aberystwyth.

Aberystwyth

Latitude
52.4143° or 52° 24′ 52″ north
Longitude
-4.0817° or 4° 4′ 54″ west
Population
13,000
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB AYW
Open location code
9C4QCW79+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21598107
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2657782
Wiki­data ID
Q213154
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Aberystwyth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Aberystwyth”
  • Arabic: “آبريستويث”
  • Arabic: “ابريستويث”
  • Asturian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Basque: “Aberystwyth”
  • Belarusian: “Абэрыстуіт”
  • Bengali: “এবারিসবিথ”
  • Breton: “Aberystwyth”
  • Bulgarian: “Абъристуит”
  • Catalan: “Aberystwyth”
  • Cebuano: “Aberystwyth”
  • Chinese: “亞伯里斯威斯”
  • Chinese: “阿伯里斯特威斯”
  • Cornish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Czech: “Aberystwyth”
  • Danish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Dutch: “Aberystwyth”
  • Eastern Mari: “Аберистуит”
  • Esperanto: “Aberystwyth”
  • Estonian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Finnish: “Aberystwyth”
  • French: “Aberystwith”
  • French: “Aberystwyth”
  • Galician: “Aberystwyth”
  • Georgian: “აბერისტუითი”
  • German: “Aberystwith”
  • German: “Aberystwyth”
  • Greek: “Αμπερύστουιθ”
  • Gujarati: “એબરિસ્ટવિથ”
  • Hebrew: “אבריסווית‘”
  • Hebrew: “אבריסטווית’”
  • Hungarian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Inari Sami: “Aberystwyth”
  • Indonesian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Interlingue: “Aberystwyth”
  • Irish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Italian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Japanese: “アベリスツイス”
  • Japanese: “アベリストウィス”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Aberystwyth”
  • Kannada: “ಅಬೆರಿಸ್ಟ್ವಿತ್”
  • Kazakh: “Аберистуит”
  • Kildin Sami: “Аберистуит”
  • Korean: “에버리스트위스”
  • Latvian: “Aberistuisa”
  • Lithuanian: “Aberistvitas”
  • Lithuanian: “Abertstvitas”
  • Lithuanian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Livvi: “Aberystwyth”
  • Lule Sami: “Aberystwyth”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Northern Sami: “Aberystwyth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aberystwyth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aberystwyth”
  • Norwegian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Persian: “آبریستویث”
  • Pite Sami: “Aberystwyth”
  • Polish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Portuguese: “Aberystwyth”
  • Romanian: “Aberystwyth”
  • Russian: “Абериствиф”
  • Russian: “Аберистуит”
  • Russian: “Абернствит”
  • Scots: “Aberystwyth”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aberystwyth”
  • Skolt Sami: “Aberystwyth”
  • Slovak: “Aberystwyth”
  • Slovenian: “Aberystwyth”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبریستویث”
  • Southern Sami: “Aberystwyth”
  • Spanish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Swedish: “Aberystwith”
  • Swedish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Tachawit: “Aberistuit”
  • Tamil: “அபெரிஸ்ட்வ்ய்த்”
  • Telugu: “అబేరిష్వెత్”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Turkish: “Aberystwyth”
  • Ukrainian: “Абериствіт”
  • Ukrainian: “Аберіствіт”
  • Ume Sami: “Aberystwyth”
  • Urdu: “ایبرسٹویتھ”
  • Vietnamese: “Aberystwyth”
  • Welsh: “Aber”
  • Welsh: “Aberystwyth”
  • Western Frisian: “Aberystwyth”

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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 “Aberystwyth”. Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.