Britannia Rock
Britannia Rock is in Wales, United Kingdom. Britannia Rock is situated nearby to Britannia Bridge, as well as near the forest Coed Mair.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Britannia Bridge and Ynys Gored Goch.
Britannia Bridge
Bridge
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Britannia Bridge is a bridge in Wales that crosses the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the city of Bangor. It was originally designed and built by the noted railway engineer Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic.
Ynys Gored Goch
Islet
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ynys Gored Goch, sometimes Ynys Gorad Goch, is a small island in the Menai Strait between Gwynedd and Anglesey in North Wales. It is situated in the stretch of the strait called the Swellies between Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge and Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge.
Menai Bridge
Bridge
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The Menai Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was one of the world's first major suspension bridges, and second such bridge designed to carry vehicular traffic, after the Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed. Menai Bridge is situated 1 mile east of Britannia Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and Vaynol.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
Photo: Raphael Frey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, often shortened to Llanfairpwll and sometimes to Llanfair PG, is a village and community on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
Vaynol
Hamlet
Photo: Gareth Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vaynol or Y Faenol is a country estate dating from the Tudor period near Y Felinheli in Gwynedd, North Wales. It has 1,000 acres of park, farmland, and gardens, with more than thirty listed buildings, surrounded by a wall which is 7 miles long.
Menai Bridge
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Menai Bridge is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west Wales. It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford, just over the water from Bangor.
Britannia Rock
- Type: Rock
- Category: landform
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.216° or 53° 12′ 58″ northLongitude
-4.18566° or 4° 11′ 8″ westOpen location code
9C5Q6R87+CPOpenStreetMap ID
way 258913683OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rock
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In Other Languages
“Britannia Rock” goes by many names.
- Welsh: “Carreg Frydan”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Coed Mair and Britannia Bridge Memorial, Churchyard of Church of St. Mary, Llanfairpwll.
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