Devil’s Bridge
Devil's Bridge is a tourist hotspot in Ceredigion just off the coast of West Wales, near Aberystwyth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alex Liivet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 424 residents
- Description: village and community in Ceredigion, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Devil’s Bridge, Ceredigion”, “Devils Bridge”, and “Pontarfynach”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Devil’s Bridge railway station and Rhiwfron railway station.
Devil’s Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Devil's Bridge railway station is a railway station serving Devil's Bridge in Ceredigion in Mid-Wales. It is the eastern terminus of the preserved Vale of Rheidol Railway.
Rhiwfron railway station
Railway station
Photo: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rhiwfron railway station is a railway station serving Rhiwfron in Ceredigion in Mid-Wales. It is an intermediate station on the preserved Vale of Rheidol Railway.
Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel
Church
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ponterwyd and Ystumtuen.
Ponterwyd
Photo: Nigel Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ponterwyd is a village in Ceredigion, Wales. It lies in the Cambrian Mountains of Mid Wales, approximately 12 miles east of Aberystwyth on the A44 road.
Ystumtuen
Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ystumtuen is a small village in northern Ceredigion, Wales. It is situated above the valley of the River Rheidol. It is situated on rocks rich in lead and silver and during a lengthy period in the 18th and 19th centuries, Ystumtuen was a bustling mining village.
Ysbyty Cynfyn
Hamlet
Photo: OLU, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ysbyty Cynfyn is a hamlet in the community of Blaenrheidol, Ceredigion, Wales, which is 69.1 miles from Cardiff and 169.3 miles from London. The Parish Church of St John the Baptist was built in the early 19th century, replacing a previous one.
Devil’s Bridge
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.3757° or 52° 22′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.8569° or 3° 51′ 25″ westPopulation
424Elevation
725 feet (221 metres)Open location code
9C4R94GV+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 1588455476OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2651298Wikidata ID
Q3398339
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Devil’s Bridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pontarfynach”
- Breton: “Pontarfynach”
- Bulgarian: “Понтарфйнач”
- Cebuano: “Pontarfynach”
- Dutch: “Devil’s Bridge”
- French: “Devil’s Bridge”
- German: “Devil’s Bridge”
- Hebrew: “גשר השטן (קרדיגיון, ויילס)”
- Hebrew: “גשר השטן”
- Irish: “Pontarfynach”
- Russian: “Мост дьявола”
- Russian: “Чёртов мост”
- Swedish: “Devil’s Bridge”
- Swedish: “Pontarfynach”
- Turkish: “Pont ar Fynach”
- Welsh: “Pontarfynach”
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