Borth Fawr
Borth Fawr is a bay in Llanengan, Gwynedd, Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Llŷn and St Tudwal’s Lighthouse.
Llŷn
Photo: Charlieb4u2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
St Tudwal’s Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Rude Health, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Tudwal's Lighthouse on Saint Tudwal's Island West is active, but unstaffed. The site of the lighthouse, which marks the north end of Cardigan Bay, was purchased by Trinity House in 1876 at the sum of £111 and the next year the stone building was complete.
Porth Ceiriad
Beach
Porth Ceiriad is a south-east facing beach and bay in the parish of Llanengan, near to Abersoch, in the county of Gwynedd, North Wales. It has several interesting geological features.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abersoch and Pwllheli.
Abersoch
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Pwllheli
Photo: Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Llanengan
Village
Photo: Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanengan is a small village and community 1.2 mi around Abersoch in Gwynedd in north-west Wales. It had a population of 2,024 at the 2001 census, which had been reduced to 1,989 at the 2011 Census.
Borth Fawr
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Llanengan, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.8168° or 52° 49′ 0″ northLongitude
-4.4948° or 4° 29′ 41″ westOpen location code
9C4QRG84+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 8920308978OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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