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Rhuddlan

Rhuddlan is a small village in , two miles inland from Rhyl on the north Wales coast. It's best known for the substantial ruin of its 13th-century castle.
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  • Type: Village with 3,710 residents
  • Description: town in North Wales
  • Also known as: “Rhyddlan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Twthill and Rhuddlan CP - Ysgol Y Castell.

Castle
is a Norman castle located near the town of Rhuddlan, in ; historic names for the site include Toothill and Tot Hill Castle and it is also known as Old Rhuddlan Castle.

School
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a school.

School
Christ the Word Catholic School is a Catholic co-educational voluntary aided secondary school situated on Cefndy Road, in , . It opened in September 2019 and is an English-medium school.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rhyl and St Asaph.

Photo: Ian Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in a seaside town in . Although once a very beautiful resort, it has become very run down. There are attempts to revive the town. The town could be called an exclave of England due to the sheer number of tourists and English people who live there.

Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is one of Britain's smallest cities, having a population of only 3,355. It is located in the lower parts of the Vale of Clwyd, in north Wales. The city's cathedral is one of four in .

Village
Photo: Dot Potter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village, community and electoral ward in , Wales. Its population at the 2011 United Kingdom census was 2,269 and was estimated by the Office for National Statistics as 2,271 in 2019. is situated 2½ miles east of Rhuddlan.

Rhuddlan

Latitude
53.2915° or 53° 17′ 29″ north
Longitude
-3.4656° or 3° 27′ 56″ west
Population
3,710
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Open location code
9C5R7GRM+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27459586
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2639425
Wiki­data ID
Q1807193
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Rhuddlan” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Rhuddlan”
  • Basque: “Rhuddlan”
  • Bengali: “রুদান”
  • Breton: “Rhuddlan”
  • Bulgarian: “Ридлан”
  • Catalan: “Rhuddlan”
  • Cebuano: “Rhuddlan (kapital sa komunidad)”
  • Cebuano: “Rhuddlan”
  • Chinese: “Rhuddlan”
  • Chinese: “里兹兰”
  • Chinese: “里茲蘭”
  • Cornish: “Rhuddlan”
  • Czech: “Rhuddlan”
  • Danish: “Rhuddlan”
  • Dutch: “Rhuddlan”
  • French: “Rhuddlan”
  • German: “Rhuddlan”
  • Gujarati: “રુડલન”
  • Hebrew: “רוד’לאן”
  • Hebrew: “ריד’לן”
  • Indonesian: “Rhuddlan”
  • Irish: “Rhuddlan”
  • Italian: “Rhuddlan”
  • Japanese: “ルッドラン”
  • Japanese: “ルドラン”
  • Kannada: “ರುಡ್ಲಾನ್”
  • Korean: “루드란”
  • Lithuanian: “Rudlenas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rhuddlan”
  • Northern Sami: “Rhuddlan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rhuddlan”
  • Persian: “ریتلن”
  • Polish: “Rhuddlan”
  • Portuguese: “Rhuddlan”
  • Russian: “Рудлан”
  • Scots: “Rhuddlan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rhuddlan”
  • Slovak: “Rhuddlan”
  • Spanish: “Rhuddlan”
  • Swedish: “Rhuddlan”
  • Tamil: “ரஹுட்டிலான்”
  • Telugu: “ర్హుడ్డ్లన్”
  • Urdu: “رہودلان”
  • Welsh: “Rhuddlan”

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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 “Rhuddlan”. Photo: Julia W, CC BY-SA 3.0.