Beddgelert
Beddgelert is a picturesque village in Gwynedd, renowned for the grave of Prince Llywelyn's dog Gelert.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sygun Copper Mine and Moel Hebog.
Sygun Copper Mine
Photo: Stephen Elwyn RODDICK, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sygun Copper Mine is a Victorian copper mine which closed in 1903 but was renovated and reopened by the Amies family as a tourist attraction in 1986, focusing on audio-visual tours of the underground workings.
Moel Hebog
Peak
Photo: Stemonitis, Public domain.
Moel Hebog is a mountain in Snowdonia, north Wales, rising to 783 metres above sea level and dominating the western view from the village of Beddgelert.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rhyd Ddu and Nantmor.
Rhyd Ddu
Rhyd-ddu is a small village in Snowdonia, North Wales which is a starting point for walks up Snowdon, Moel Hebog, Yr Aran and the Nantlle Ridge. It lies on the A4085 between Beddgelert and Caernarfon, at its junction with the B4418 to Nantlle and Penygroes. Rhyd Ddu railway station is one of the stops on the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and Porthmadog.
Nantmor
Village
Photo: William Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nantmor is a hamlet which lies about 1½ miles to the south of the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales. The current spelling of the name Nantmor is more modern – most old documents from the 16th to the 18th century record the name as Nanmor.
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 3½ miles southeast of Beddgelert.
Beddgelert
- Type: Village with 459 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
53.0116° or 53° 0′ 42″ northLongitude
-4.1027° or 4° 6′ 10″ westPopulation
459Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9C5Q2V6W+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 25580892OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2656049Wikidata ID
Q791811
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Beddgelert” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Beddgelert”
- Breton: “Beddgelert”
- Bulgarian: “Бедгелерт”
- Catalan: “Beddgelert”
- Cebuano: “Beddgelert”
- Chinese: “貝德格勒特”
- Chinese: “貝德蓋勒特”
- Cornish: “Beddgelert”
- Dutch: “Beddgelert”
- French: “Beddgelert”
- Galician: “Beddgelert”
- German: “Beddgelert”
- Hebrew: “בד’גלרט”
- Hungarian: “Beddgelert”
- Irish: “Beddgelert”
- Italian: “Beddgelert”
- Japanese: “ベズゲレルト”
- Scots: “Beddgelert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beddgelert”
- Spanish: “Beddgelert”
- Swedish: “Beddgelert”
- Vietnamese: “Beddgelert”
- Welsh: “Beddgelert”
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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 “Beddgelert”. Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.