Porthmadog
Porthmadog, formerly Portmadoc, is a small coastal town in Gwynedd with a population of 4,000. It has a picturesque harbour. 19th-century wharves survive, but the harbour is used by leisure yachts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Rob Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- 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.
Porthmadog railway station
Railway station
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Porthmadog railway station serves the town of Porthmadog on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. The station is on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to Pwllheli, Harlech, Barmouth, Machynlleth, Shrewsbury and Birmingham.
Porthmadog Harbour railway station
Railway station
Porthmadog Harbour railway station in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales. It 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 railway station
Railway station
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Porthmadog railway station is the southern terminus of the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway and serves the western end of the town of Porthmadog in Gwynedd, Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portmeirion and Tremadog.
Portmeirion
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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.
Tremadog
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tremadog is a village in the community of Porthmadog, in Gwynedd, north west Wales; about one mile north of Porthmadog town centre. It was a planned settlement, founded by William Madocks, who bought the land in 1798.
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.
Porthmadog
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.9256° or 52° 55′ 32″ northLongitude
-4.1297° or 4° 7′ 47″ westPopulation
4,760Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 27431602OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Porthmadog”. Photo: Rob Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0.