Laxey

Laxey is a small and very touristy village on the - its Great Wheel is an icon of the island. Laksaa in Manx means salmon, like the modern Scandinavian and German words, and the river descending steeply from Snaefell has a run of salmon.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Laxey Wheel and Laxey railway station.

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The is built into the hillside above the village of Laxey in the . It is the largest surviving original working waterwheel in the world.

Railway station
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is an interchange station in the village of Laxey on the east coast of the . It is the principal intermediate station on the Manx Electric Railway as well as being the lower terminus of the Snaefell Mountain Railway.

Archaeological site
Photo: James Qualtrough, CC BY 2.0.
King Orry's Grave is the largest megalithic tomb on the . It is situated in Minorca, in the northern part of the village of Laxey, partly in a private cottage garden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ballabeg and Agneash.

Locality
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There are about eight small places on the with the name . The name derives from the Manx Balley Beg which means small homestead; although the spelling is different, it is pronounced approximately the same as the English name.

Hamlet
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is a small village in the , 1.9 kilometres by road north of Laxey. Primitive Methodist Chapel opened in 1857.

Locality
, Isle of Man or is an area of Mountain Lands of heath moorland and coniferous woodland plantations situated in the Northern Upland Massif in the parish of in the . is situated 5 km west of Laxey.

Laxey

Latitude
54.2301° or 54° 13′ 48″ north
Longitude
-4.4002° or 4° 24′ 1″ west
Population
1,770
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
9C6Q6HJX+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 410291638
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3042217
Wiki­data ID
Q1026205
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Laxey” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Լաքսի”
  • Asturian: “Laxey”
  • Basque: “Laksaa”
  • Basque: “Laxey”
  • Belarusian: “Лаксі”
  • Catalan: “Laxey”
  • Cebuano: “Laxey”
  • Chinese: “拉克西”
  • Dutch: “Laxey”
  • French: “Laxey”
  • German: “Laksaa”
  • German: “Laxey”
  • Hebrew: “לאקסי”
  • Irish: “Laksaa”
  • Italian: “Laxey”
  • Japanese: “ラクシー (マン島)”
  • Manx: “Baie ny Mraddan”
  • Manx: “Laksaa”
  • Manx: “Laksaah”
  • Manx: “Laksey”
  • Manx: “Laxey”
  • Northern Frisian: “Laxey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Laxey”
  • Norwegian: “Laxey”
  • Polish: “Laxey”
  • Portuguese: “Laxey”
  • Russian: “Лакси”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Laksaa”
  • Slovak: “Laxey”
  • Spanish: “Laxey”
  • Swedish: “Laxey”
  • Ukrainian: “Лаксі”

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