Portmeirion

Portmeirion is an Italian renaissance-style village on the coast of , most famous for being the setting of the cult television program The Prisoner.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Wales
  • Also known as: “The Village”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ynys Gifftan and Minffordd railway station.

Island
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is an island near the south east shore of Traeth Bach, the Dwyryd estuary near Portmeirion in , north . There is a public footpath to it across the estuary marked on Ordnance Survey maps but has no definable marks that make it obvious; it can be reached on foot at low tide and is 38 metres high.

Railway station
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is a pair of adjacent stations on separate lines in Gwynedd, Wales. The mainline station opened as Minfford Junction on 1 August 1872 at the point where the then recently built Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway line from Dovey Junction to passes under the earlier narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway.

Railway station
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Boston Lodge Halt in is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from to for export by sea.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porthmadog and Talsarnau.

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, 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.

Village
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is a village and community in the Ardudwy area of in Wales. Its population was 525 in 2001, and had increased to 550 at the 2011 Census.

Village
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is a village within the county of . It is situated on the A487 road between and , and in the community of the latter.

Portmeirion

Latitude
52.9135° or 52° 54′ 48″ north
Longitude
-4.0994° or 4° 5′ 58″ west
Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MRI
Open location code
9C4QWW72+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1506145208
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6620365
Wiki­data ID
Q737888
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Portmeirion” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Portmeirion”
  • Breton: “Portmeirion”
  • Catalan: “Portmeirion”
  • Chinese: “波特梅里恩”
  • Czech: “Portmeirion”
  • Dutch: “Portmeirion”
  • French: “Portmeirion”
  • Galician: “Portmeirion”
  • German: “Portmeirion”
  • Indonesian: “Portmeirion”
  • Irish: “Portmeirion”
  • Italian: “Portmeirion”
  • Latin: “Portmeirion”
  • Macedonian: “Портмерион”
  • Manx: “Portmeirion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Portmeirion”
  • Norwegian: “Portmeirion”
  • Persian: “پورتمیریون”
  • Polish: “Portmeirion”
  • Russian: “Портмейрион”
  • Russian: “Портмерион”
  • Scots: “Portmeirion”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Portmeirion”
  • Slovak: “Portmeirion”
  • Spanish: “Portmeirion”
  • Swedish: “Portmeirion”
  • Welsh: “Portmeirion”
  • “Portmeirion”

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