Foel
Foel is a residential area in Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, Wales. Foel is situated nearby to the church Capel Sardis, as well as near the village Dinorwig.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cei Llydan railway station and National Slate Museum.
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 3,800 feet southwest of Foel.
National Slate Museum
Museum
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The National Slate Museum is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within the Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd. National Slate Museum is situated 1 mile south of Foel.
Gilfach Ddu railway station
Railway station
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Gilfach Ddu railway station is an intermediate 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. Gilfach Ddu railway station is situated 1 mile south of Foel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dinorwig and Deiniolen.
Dinorwig
Village
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Dinorwig, historically spelled as Dinorwic in English, is a village located high above Llyn Padarn, near Llanberis, in Wales. The name is shared with the fort of Dinas Dinorwig, also within the community of Llanddeiniolen, on a foothill 6 kilometres from Dinorwig village and 3 kilometres from the Menai Strait and also with Port Dinorwic, the anglicised name of Y Felinheli.
Deiniolen
Village
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Deiniolen is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, at the foot of Elidir Fawr, in Llanddeiniolen Community. Deiniolen has views over Caernarfon and on a clear day, Holyhead Mountain and occasionally the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, can be seen.
Llanberis
Photo: Hefin Owen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanberis is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake Llyn Padarn and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.
Foel
- Type: Residential area
- Location: Llanddeiniolen, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.13547° or 53° 8′ 8″ northLongitude
-4.11661° or 4° 6′ 60″ westOpen location code
9C5Q4VPM+59OpenStreetMap ID
way 267293720OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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