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Denbighshire

Rhyl

Rhyl 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.
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  • Type: Town with 25,100 residents
  • Description: town in Denbighshire, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Rhyl, Denbighshire”, “Rhyl, Wales”, and “Y Rhyl”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rhyl railway station and Rhyl Belle Vue Football Club.

Railway station
Photo: Simply south, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is on the to North Wales Coast Line and serves the holiday resort of Rhyl, .

Pitch
Photo: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belle Vue is a multi-purpose stadium in Rhyl, Wales. It is used mostly for football matches, and is the home ground of C.P.D. Y Rhyl 1879. The stadium holds 3,000 people, with a seating capacity of 1,720.

Town hall
Photo: Paul the Archivist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipal structure in Wellington Road in Rhyl, , Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Rhyl Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rhuddlan and Kinmel Bay.

Photo: Julia W, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Town
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large seaside village in , north-east . It is also an electoral ward to the county council and town council. The resort town of Rhyl lies just across the in the neighbouring county of .

Village
Photo: Jonathan Wilkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a seaside resort in the , . It is also an electoral ward to the town and county councils. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Rhyl.

Rhyl

Latitude
53.3207° or 53° 19′ 15″ north
Longitude
-3.4907° or 3° 29′ 27″ west
Population
25,100
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB RHY
Open location code
9C5R8GC5+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27459585
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2639409
Wiki­data ID
Q2020203
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Rhyl” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Y Rhyl”
  • Basque: “Rhyl”
  • Basque: “Y Rhyl”
  • Bengali: “রিল”
  • Breton: “Y Rhyl”
  • Bulgarian: “Рил”
  • Catalan: “Y Rhyl”
  • Cebuano: “Rhyl”
  • Chinese: “Rhyl”
  • Chinese: “萊爾”
  • Chinese: “里尔”
  • Chinese: “里爾”
  • Cornish: “Y Rhyl”
  • Czech: “Rhyl”
  • Danish: “Rhyl”
  • Dutch: “Rhyl”
  • Finnish: “Rhyl”
  • French: “Rhyl”
  • German: “Rhyl”
  • Greek: “Ριλ”
  • Gujarati: “રીલ”
  • Hebrew: “ריל (ויילס)”
  • Hebrew: “ריל”
  • Irish: “Y Rhyl”
  • Italian: “Rhyl”
  • Japanese: “リル (ウェールズ)”
  • Japanese: “リル”
  • Kannada: “ರೈಲ್”
  • Korean: “릴”
  • Lithuanian: “Rilis”
  • Livvi: “Y Rhyl”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rhyl”
  • Northern Sami: “Y Rhyl”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Y Rhyl”
  • Norwegian: “Rhyl”
  • Persian: “ریل، ولز”
  • Persian: “ریل”
  • Polish: “Rhyl”
  • Russian: “Рил”
  • Scots: “Y Rhyl”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Y Rhyl”
  • Slovak: “Rhyl”
  • Spanish: “Rhyl”
  • Swedish: “Rhyl”
  • Tamil: “ரஹைல்”
  • Telugu: “ర్హ్య్లల్”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріл”
  • Urdu: “رہائل”
  • Võro: “Y Rhyl”
  • Welsh: “Y Rhyl”
  • “Rhyl”
  • “Y Rhyl”

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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 “Rhyl”. Photo: David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.