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Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum

Museum

Photo: Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum was a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales. In the nineteenth century, Penrhyn Castle was the home of the Pennant family, owners of the Penrhyn slate quarry at Bethesda. Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum is situated 830 feet south of Penrhyr railway exhibit.

Port Penrhyn

Dock

Photo: Linus Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Port Penrhyn is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the confluence of the River Cegin with the Menai Strait. It was formerly of great importance as the main port for the export of slate from the Penrhyn Quarry, the largest slate quarry in the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Port Penrhyn is situated 1 mile northwest of Penrhyr railway exhibit.

Bangor Mountain

Peak

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Bangor Mountain is a scarp face of a hill below which the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, Wales, sits. Though not a mountain in the true sense of the word it is so-called because of the way it rears up behind Bangor and appears mountainous, especially from the Glan Adda, High Street and Hirael areas of the city.

Places in the Area

Llandygai

Village

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Llandygai is a small village and community on the A5 road between Bangor and Talybont in Gwynedd, Wales. It affords a view of the nearby Carneddau mountain range.

Maesgeirchen

Suburb

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Maesgeirchen is a large housing estate on the edge of the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, with roughly 4,000 inhabitants. It is the third-largest single housing estate in Wales behind Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, the second largest and Caia Park in Wrexham, which is the largest with nearly 12,000 inhabitants.

Talybont

Village

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Talybont, is a small village to the southeast of the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the community of Llanllechid, and next to Llandygai. It had a population of 465 as of 2011.

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