Pen Dinas Hill Fort

Pen Dinas Hill Fort is an archaeological site in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales. Pen Dinas Hill Fort is situated nearby to Wellington Monument, as well as near the church Quaker Meeting House Aberystwyth.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wellington Monument and Aberystwyth Castle.

Wellington Monument

Monument

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Wellington Monument is situated 560 feet south of Pen Dinas Hill Fort.

Aberystwyth Castle is a Grade I listed Edwardian fortress located in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Mid Wales. It was built in response to the First Welsh War in the late 13th century, replacing an earlier fortress located a mile to the south. Aberystwyth Castle is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Pen Dinas Hill Fort.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penparcau and Rhydyfelin.

Penparcau

Village

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Penparcau is a village and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales, situated to the south of Aberystwyth. The original village was a hamlet, but the building of extensive Art Deco style semi-detached social housing from the 1920s on transformed it.

Rhydyfelin

Village

Photo: Nigel Callaghan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rhydyfelin is a village.

Llanbadarn Fawr

Suburb

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Llanbadarn Fawr is a village and community in Ceredigion, Wales. It is on the outskirts of Aberystwyth next to Penparcau and Southgate, and contains the hamlet Pen-dre.

Pen Dinas Hill Fort

Type: Archaeological site
Inscription: “The hillfort actually consists of two separate forts built many years apart, which were later combined to form a larger structure.”
Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.40308° or 52° 24′ 11″ north

Longitude

-4.08237° or 4° 4′ 57″ west

Open location code

9C4QCW39+63

OpenStreetMap ID

way 186004250

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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In Other Languages

“Pen Dinas Hill Fort” goes by many names.

Welsh: “Pen Dinas (Aberystwyth)”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Quaker Meeting House Aberystwyth and Aberystwyth Holiday Village.

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