Gwynedd
Gwynedd is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bangor and Tywyn.
Bangor
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Bangor is a small coastal city in Gwynedd in North Wales. It is a picturesque city offering views over the Menai Straits, and serves as a convenient base for visiting the nearby Snowdonia National Park.
Tywyn
Tywyn is a town of 3,300 people and seaside resort in Gwynedd, Wales. Tywyn sits on the Cardigan Bay shoreline of Mid Wales and is surrounded by the green valleys and hills of Bro Dysynni, which form the south-western corner of the Snowdonia National Park.
Caernarfon
Caernarfon is a Royal town in Gwynedd, North-West Wales. Caernarfon is famous for its breathtaking castle and as a stronghold of the Welsh language. The castle and fortified complex is recognised on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the finest examples of late 13th-century and early 14th-century military architecture in Europe.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Bardsey Island and Porthmadog.
Bardsey Island
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Bardsey Island is 1.9 miles off Aberdaron, on the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. To the south the island is the lighthouse, visible from most of the North Wales coast.
Porthmadog
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Porthmadog, formerly Portmadoc, is a small coastal town in Gwynedd with a population of 4,000. It has a picturesque harbour. 19th-century wharves survive, but the harbour is used by leisure yachts.
Pwllheli
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Pwllheli is the traditional market-town of the beautiful Llŷn Peninsula in Wales. The town is on the coast, with two sandy beaches, a marina host to many sailing regattas and as the market town has shops and cafés.
Portmeirion
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Portmeirion is an Italian renaissance-style village on the coast of North Wales, most famous for being the setting of the cult television program The Prisoner.
Barmouth
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Barmouth is a seaside town and community in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales; it lies on the estuary of the Afon Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. Located in the historic county of Merionethshire, the Welsh form of the name is derived from aber and the river's name, Mawddach.
Blaenau Ffestiniog
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Blaenau Ffestiniog is a small town in the Snowdonia Mountains in Wales. Blaenau Ffestiniog is a former slate-mining village and consists of one main road with all the others leading off it. Many visitors come to ride the historic narrow-gauge railway.
Harlech
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Harlech is a town in north Wales, the location of a magnificently-situated medieval castle and the steepest street in the world, Ffordd Pen Llech.
Llanberis
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Llanberis is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake Llyn Padarn and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.
Dolgellau
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Dolgellau is a picturesque little town in Gwynedd, North Wales. It is located within the Snowdonia National Park and is an important centre for Welsh traditional music.
Bala
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Bala is a picturesque town of 2,000 people on the shores of Lake Bala in Gwynedd, North Wales. It lies at the south-eastern edge of the Snowdonia National Park. Excellent national centre for white water rafting and canoeing nearby.
Aberdyfi
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Aberdyfi is a village in Gwynedd. It lies at the mouth of the river Dyfi, from which it derives its name. Aberdyfi is a holiday resort, traditionally popular with golfers and sailors but also with more adrenaline-driven sportspeople, and is home to Britain's Best Beach Donkey.
Llŷn
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Llŷn is an area in the county of Gwynedd, North Wales. It is, broadly speaking, the peninsula sticking out westwards beyond Snowdonia. Its beaches and headlands rival those of the better known Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in south-west Wales.
Nefyn
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Nefyn is a town and community on the northwest coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales. Nefyn is popular with visitors for its sandy beach, and has one substantial hotel, a community pub and a beach cafe.
Bethesda
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Bethesda is a town in Gwynedd, North Wales. It is often known locally as Pesda. The town lies at the foot of the Nant Francon pass, leading up the Ogwen valley into the heart of the Snowdonia mountains. It is ideal for walking Snowdonia.
Aberdaron
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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.
Beddgelert
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Beddgelert is a picturesque village in Gwynedd, renowned for the grave of Prince Llywelyn's dog Gelert.
Criccieth
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Criccieth is a town in Gwynedd. It is one of the more easterly towns on the south coast of Llŷn and overlooks Tremadog Bay. It is associated with the one time prime minister of the UK, David Lloyd George, who grew up in the nearby village of Llanystumdwy.
Fairbourne
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Fairbourne is a seaside village in Gwynedd, Wales. Located on the coast of Barmouth Bay in Arthog community, to the south of the estuary of the River Mawddach, it is surrounded by Snowdonia National Park.
Corris
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Corris is a small village in the hills of Gwynedd, on the border with Powys. In the 19th century it was a slate-mining town and has many remnants of those times, especially the narrow-gauge railway, which has been restored.
Abersoch
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Abersoch is a village in Llŷn 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.
Talysarn
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Tal-y-sarn is a village in the slate quarrying Nantlle Valley in Gwynedd, Wales, next to Penygroes. It is part of the community of Llanllyfni and includes some of Llandwrog.
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.
Gwynedd
- Type: Region with 187,000 residents
- Description: principal area and preserved county in north-west Wales, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County Gwynedd”, “County of Gwynedd”, and “Gwynedd County”
- Neighbors: Ceredigion, Conwy, and Powys
- Categories: principal area of Wales and preserved county of Wales
- Location: North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gwynedd” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جوينيد”
- Armenian: “Գվինեդ”
- Asturian: “Gwynedd”
- Azerbaijani: “Quinet”
- Basque: “Gwynedd”
- Belarusian: “Гвінед”
- Belarusian: “Гвінет”
- Belarusian: “Гвінэд”
- Bengali: “গেনেড”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Gwynedd”
- Bulgarian: “Гуинед”
- Catalan: “Gwynedd”
- Cebuano: “Gwynedd”
- Chinese: “Gwynedd Kūn”
- Chinese: “圭內斯”
- Chinese: “圭内斯”
- Chinese: “格温内斯”
- Chinese: “格溫內斯”
- Cornish: “Gwynedd”
- Cornish: “Gwynedh”
- Croatian: “Gwynedd”
- Czech: “Gwynedd”
- Danish: “Gwynedd”
- Dutch: “Gwynedd”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جوينيد”
- Esperanto: “Gwynedd”
- Estonian: “Gwynedd”
- Faroese: “Gwynedd”
- Finnish: “Gwynedd”
- French: “Gwynedd”
- Galician: “Condado de Gwynedd”
- Galician: “County of Gwynedd”
- Galician: “Gwynedd”
- German: “GB-GWN”
- German: “Gwynedd”
- Greek: “Γκουίνεθ”
- Gujarati: “ગ્વિનેડ”
- Hebrew: “גוויניד‘”
- Hebrew: “גוויניד’”
- Hungarian: “Gwynedd”
- Indonesian: “Gwynedd”
- Irish: “Gwynedd”
- Italian: “Gwynedd”
- Japanese: “グウィネズ”
- Japanese: “グウィネズ州”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ವಿನೆಡ್”
- Korean: “귀네드 주”
- Korean: “귀네드”
- Ladin: “Gwynedd”
- Latvian: “Guineza”
- Lithuanian: “Gvinedas”
- Low German: “Gwynedd”
- Macedonian: “Гвинед”
- Manx: “Gwynedd”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gwynedd Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Gwynedd (Principal Area)”
- Northern Frisian: “Gwynedd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gwynedd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gwynedd”
- Norwegian: “Gwynedd”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gwynedd”
- Persian: “گویند”
- Persian: “گوینز”
- Polish: “Gwynedd”
- Portuguese: “Gwynedd”
- Romanian: “Gwynedd”
- Russian: “Гвинедд”
- Russian: “Гуинет”
- Scots: “Gwynedd”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gwynedd”
- Serbian: “Гвинет”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gwynedd”
- Slovenian: “Gwynedd”
- Spanish: “Condado de Gwynedd”
- Spanish: “Gwynedd Gales”
- Spanish: “Gwynedd”
- Swedish: “Gwynedd”
- Tamil: “கினெட்ட்”
- Telugu: “గైనెడ్”
- Thai: “กวินเนดด์”
- Turkish: “Gwynedd”
- Ukrainian: “Гвінед”
- Ukrainian: “Гвінедд”
- Ukrainian: “Гвінет”
- Urdu: “جوینید”
- Urdu: “گوائنیڈ”
- Venetian: “Gwynedd”
- Vietnamese: “Gwynedd”
- Welsh: “Gwynedd”
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