Elephant Rock

Elephant Rock is in Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Wales. Elephant Rock is situated nearby to the building Llwyn Coed, as well as near Penllyn railway station.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Penllyn railway station and Cei Llydan railway station.

Penllyn railway station

Railway station

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Penllyn railway station is the northern terminus of the Llanberis Lake Railway, located near Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. The station has no platform, but passengers are allowed to alight. Penllyn railway station is situated 1,300 feet southeast of Elephant Rock.

Cei Llydan railway station

Railway station

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Cei Llydan is an intermediate railway station on the Llanberis Lake Railway, located in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. Most of the LLR was laid around 1970 on part of the trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway. Cei Llydan railway station is situated 1 mile southeast of Elephant Rock.

Glynrhonwy Slate Quarry

Quarry

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The Glynrhonwy quarries were two adjacent quarries in the Glynrhonwy area, north-west of Llanberis, in Carnarvonshire, Wales. They were: The quarries operated internal railways of 2 ft gauge and were served by Glynrhonwy Siding off the LNWR's Caernarfon to Llanberis branch. Glynrhonwy Slate Quarry is situated 1 mile southeast of Elephant Rock.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brynrefail and Cwm-y-glo.

Brynrefail

Village

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Brynrefail is a small village in Gwynedd, Wales. The village is in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd UK constituency and the Gwynedd Council Ward of Penisa'r Waun.

Cwm-y-glo

Village

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Cwm-y-glo is a small village in Wales, 4+1⁄2 miles east of Caernarfon, between Llanberis and Llanrug. It is in the Dwyfor Meirionnydd UK constituency, the community of Llanrug, and the Gwynedd Council electoral ward.

Clwt-y-bont

Hamlet

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Clwt-y-bont is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, lying just to the south of Deiniolen. The two villages form one urban unit. Both were built in the early 19th century to house workers in the Dinorwig slate quarry, and both suffered when the quarry was closed in 1969.

Elephant Rock

Type: Rock
Category: landform
Location: Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.13853° or 53° 8′ 19″ north

Longitude

-4.15516° or 4° 9′ 19″ west

Open location code

9C5Q4RQV+CW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1559351040

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bare_rock

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