Pen y Banc

Pen y Banc is in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales. Pen y Banc is situated nearby to St Cyngar’s Church, as well as near the church Capel Bethel.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Cyngar’s Church and Ysgol Borthygest.

Ysgol Borthygest

School

Photo: Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ysgol Borthygest is a school, which is situated 1,000 feet west of Pen y Banc.

Porthmadog Harbour railway station

Railway station

Photo: Eagle1942, CC BY 2.0.

Porthmadog Harbour railway station in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales, is the passenger terminus of two narrow gauge railways: the Ffestiniog Railway, which was opened in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the Quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the sea port of Porthmadog, for export by sea; and the Welsh Highland Railway, incorporated in 1923, which ran to Dinas. Porthmadog Harbour railway station is situated 4,000 feet northeast of Pen y Banc.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Borth-y-Gest and Morfa Bychan.

Borth-y-Gest

Village

Photo: Peter Glyn, CC0.

Borth-y-Gest is a village.

Morfa Bychan

Village

Photo: Peter Gordois, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Morfa Bychan is a village located in Gwynedd, North Wales, with a population of over 500, with an almost equal number of people born in England or Wales.

Portmeirion

Photo: MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Pen y Banc

Type: Sign
Categories: information and tourism
Location: Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.91443° or 52° 54′ 52″ north

Longitude

-4.13506° or 4° 8′ 6″ west

Open location code

9C4QWV77+QX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 559624918

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

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