Boston Lodge
Boston Lodge is situated at Penrhyn Isa, Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth, on the A487 road about 1 mile SE across the Afon Glaslyn causeway from Porthmadog, Gwynedd in north-west Wales.Photo: NoelWalley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Railway
- Description: railway workshop of the Ffestiniog Railway
- Also known as: “Boston Lodge Works”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Boston Lodge Halt railway station and Porthmadog Harbour railway station.
Boston Lodge Halt railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gwernol, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boston Lodge Halt in North Wales is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea. Boston Lodge Halt railway station is situated 650 feet northeast of Boston Lodge.
Porthmadog Harbour railway station
Railway station
Porthmadog Harbour railway station in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales, is the passenger terminus of two narrow gauge railways: the Ffestiniog Railway, which was opened in 1836 to carry dressed slate from the Quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the sea port of Porthmadog, for export by sea; and the Welsh Highland Railway, incorporated in 1923, which ran to Dinas. Porthmadog Harbour railway station is situated 1 mile west of Boston Lodge.
Castell Deudraeth
Hotel
Photo: Chrisgj6, Public domain.
Castell Deudraeth is a former manor house approximately 0.5 km NE of Portmeirion in Gwynedd, North Wales. Castell Deudraeth is situated 2,500 feet east of Boston Lodge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portmeirion and Minffordd.
Portmeirion
Photo: MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portmeirion is an Italian renaissance-style village on the coast of North Wales, most famous for being the setting of the cult television program The Prisoner.
Minffordd
Village
Photo: Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Minffordd is a village within the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It is situated on the A487 road between Porthmadog and Penrhyndeudraeth, and in the community of the latter.
Porthmadog
Photo: Rob Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Porthmadog, formerly Portmadoc, is a small coastal town in Gwynedd with a population of 4,000. It has a picturesque harbour. 19th-century wharves survive, but the harbour is used by leisure yachts.
Boston Lodge
- Categories: factory, motive power depot, railway workshop, and transportation
- Location: Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.91951° or 52° 55′ 10″ northLongitude
-4.10653° or 4° 6′ 24″ westOpen location code
9C4QWV9V+R9OpenStreetMap ID
way 173333652OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=railwayWikidata ID
Q894566
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In Other Languages
From German to Welsh—“Boston Lodge” goes by many names.
- German: “Boston Lodge Works”
- German: “Boston Lodge”
- Welsh: “Gweithdy Boston Lodge”
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