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Gwynedd

Tywyn

Tywyn is a town of 3,300 people and seaside resort in , Wales. Tywyn sits on the Cardigan Bay shoreline of Mid Wales and is surrounded by the green valleys and hills of Bro Dysynni, which form the south-western corner of the .
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  • Type: Town with 3,100 residents
  • Description: town and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd, Wales
  • Also known as: “Towyn”
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tywyn railway station and Narrow Gauge Railway Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
serves the town of Tywyn in , . The station is on the Cambrian Coast Line, with passenger services to , , , , Aberdovey, and .

Museum
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
The is a purpose-built dedicated to narrow-gauge railways situated at the station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, , .

Railway station
Photo: Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the western terminus and principal station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, in mid-.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aberdyfi and Bryncrug.

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is a village in . It lies at the mouth of the river Dyfi, from which it derives its name. is a holiday resort, traditionally popular with golfers and sailors but also with more adrenaline-driven sportspeople, and is home to Britain's Best Beach Donkey.

Village
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, sometimes spelt Bryn-crug, is a village and community in , Wales. Afon Fathew flows through the village and into the . The village is situated to the north east of the town of Tywyn, at the junction of the A493 and B4405 roads.

Hamlet
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is a village and a community in , north-west . It was formerly part of the historic county of . It is located within national park, south of the mountain range of the same name. is situated 3 miles north of Tywyn.

Tywyn

Latitude
52.5861° or 52° 35′ 10″ north
Longitude
-4.0856° or 4° 5′ 8″ west
Population
3,100
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Open location code
9C4QHWP7+CQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29227281
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6559494
Wiki­data ID
Q2272941
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Tywyn” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tywyn”
  • Asturian: “Tywyn”
  • Basque: “Tywyn”
  • Bengali: “টিউইন”
  • Breton: “Tywyn”
  • Bulgarian: “Тъуин”
  • Catalan: “Tywyn”
  • Cebuano: “Tywyn”
  • Chinese: “Tywyn”
  • Chinese: “泰温”
  • Chinese: “泰溫”
  • Chinese: “陶因 (格溫內斯郡)”
  • Cornish: “Tywyn”
  • Danish: “Tywyn”
  • Dutch: “Tywyn”
  • French: “Tywyn”
  • Galician: “Tywyn”
  • German: “Tywyn”
  • Gujarati: “ટાયવિન”
  • Hebrew: “טיווין”
  • Indonesian: “Tywyn”
  • Irish: “Tywyn”
  • Italian: “Tywyn”
  • Japanese: “タウィン”
  • Japanese: “タウイン”
  • Kannada: “ಟೈವಿನ್”
  • Korean: “타이윈”
  • Lithuanian: “Tivinas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tywyn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tywyn”
  • Persian: “تاوین”
  • Polish: “Tywyn”
  • Portuguese: “Tywyn”
  • Russian: “Тайвин”
  • Scots: “Tywyn”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tywyn”
  • Spanish: “Tywyn”
  • Swedish: “Tywyn (community i Storbritannien)”
  • Swedish: “Tywyn”
  • Tamil: “டிவ்யின்”
  • Telugu: “టివిన్”
  • Urdu: “تیوین”
  • Vietnamese: “Tywyn”
  • Welsh: “Tywyn, Gwynedd”
  • Welsh: “Tywyn”

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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 “Tywyn”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.