Porthmadog

Porthmadog, formerly Portmadoc, is a small coastal town in with a population of 4,000. It has a picturesque harbour. 19th-century wharves survive, but the harbour is used by leisure yachts.
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  • Type: Town with 4,760 residents
  • Description: town and community in Gwynedd, Wales
  • Also known as: “Port” and “Portmadoc”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porthmadog railway station and Porthmadog Harbour railway station.

Railway station
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serves the town of Porthmadog on the in , Wales. The station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to , , , , and .

Railway station
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in Porthmadog, , , 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 to the sea port of Porthmadog, for export by sea; and the Welsh Highland Railway, incorporated in 1923, which ran to Dinas.

Railway station
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is the southern terminus of the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway and serves the western end of the town of Porthmadog in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Portmeirion and Tremadog.

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is an Italian renaissance-style village on the coast of , most famous for being the setting of the cult television program The Prisoner.

Village
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is a village in the community of Porthmadog, in , north west ; about one mile north of Porthmadog town centre. It was a planned settlement, founded by William Madocks, who bought the land in 1798.

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

Porthmadog

Latitude
52.9256° or 52° 55′ 32″ north
Longitude
-4.1297° or 4° 7′ 47″ west
Population
4,760
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
United Nations Location Codes
GB PTD and GB PMD
Open location code
9C4QWVGC+64
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27431602
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640045
Wiki­data ID
Q950671
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Porthmadog” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Porthmadog”
  • Basque: “Porthmadog”
  • Breton: “Porthmadog”
  • Bulgarian: “Портмадог”
  • Catalan: “Porthmadog”
  • Cebuano: “Porthmadog (kapital sa komunidad)”
  • Cebuano: “Porthmadog”
  • Chinese: “波斯馬多格”
  • Chinese: “波斯马多格”
  • Cornish: “Porthmadog”
  • Czech: “Port”
  • Czech: “Porthmadog”
  • Czech: “Portmadoc”
  • Danish: “Porthmadog”
  • Dutch: “Porthmadog”
  • French: “Porthmadog”
  • German: “Porthmadog”
  • Greek: “Πόρθμαντογκ”
  • Hebrew: “פורטמאדוג”
  • Hebrew: “פורת’מדוג”
  • Indonesian: “Porthmadog”
  • Irish: “Porthmadog”
  • Italian: “Porthmadog”
  • Japanese: “ポースマドッグ”
  • Japanese: “ポートマドック”
  • Japanese: “ポルスマドッグ”
  • Lithuanian: “Portmadogas”
  • Manx: “Porthmadog”
  • Northern Sami: “Porthmadog”
  • Persian: “پورثمدوگ”
  • Polish: “Porthmadog”
  • Russian: “Портмадог”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Porthmadog”
  • Spanish: “Porthmadog”
  • Swedish: “Porthmadog”
  • Ukrainian: “Портмадог”
  • Welsh: “Porthmadog”
  • “Porthmadog”

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