Abercegin
Abercegin is a hamlet in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. Abercegin is situated nearby to the locality Porth Penrhyn, as well as near Castle Hill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Port Penrhyn and Bangor Cathedral.
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.
Bangor Cathedral
Church
Photo: Denis Egan, CC BY 2.0.
Bangor Cathedral is the cathedral church of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol. The site of the present building of Bangor Cathedral has been in use as a place of Christian worship since the sixth century.
Bangor Mountain
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
Nearby places include Maesgeirchen and Llandygai.
Maesgeirchen
Suburb
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Llandygai
Village
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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.
Abercegin
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.23178° or 53° 13′ 54″ northLongitude
-4.10956° or 4° 6′ 34″ westOpen location code
9C5Q6VJR+P5OpenStreetMap ID
node 204158243OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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