Maentwrog power station

Maentwrog power station was built by the North Wales Power Company and supplied electricity to North Wales, Deeside and Cheshire. It exploits the water resources of the Snowdonia mountains, using water turbines to drive electricity alternators.

Type: Power station
Description: Hydro-electric power station in Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Also known as: “Maentwrog Hydroelectric Power Station” and “Maentwrog Power Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Plas Halt railway station and St Twrog’s Church.

Plas Halt railway station

Railway station

Photo: Markz55, Public domain.

Plas Halt is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway in Wales, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea. Plas Halt railway station is situated 1 mile north of Maentwrog power station.

St Twrog’s Church

Church

Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Saint Twrog's Church is in the village of Maentwrog in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, lying in the Vale of Ffestiniog, within the Snowdonia National Park. St Twrog’s Church is situated 1 mile northeast of Maentwrog power station.

Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf

Reservoir

Photo: Barry Hunter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf is a reservoir.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tan-y-Bwlch and Llandecwyn.

Tan-y-Bwlch

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Tan-y-Bwlch lies in the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales and is primarily known as the location of Tan-y-Bwlch railway station, on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway.

Llandecwyn

Hamlet

Photo: gwyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Llandecwyn is a hamlet near Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd, Wales. The bulk of the population is now located around Cilfor close to the A496 road and served by Llandecwyn railway station, with a cluster of under ten houses around the road junction at Capel Brontecwyn half a mile up the hill to the southeast, and other isolated houses and farms scattered across the hillsides. Llandecwyn is situated 2 miles southwest of Maentwrog power station.

Gellilydan

Village

Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gellilydan is a village in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, in Maentwrog community. It lies 4 miles south-south-east of Blaenau Ffestiniog and 1.2 miles north of Llyn Trawsfynydd and the disused Trawsfynydd nuclear power station. Gellilydan is situated 2 miles east of Maentwrog power station.

Maentwrog power station

Category: industry
Location: Maentwrog, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.93598° or 52° 56′ 10″ north

Longitude

-4.00417° or 4° 0′ 15″ west

Open location code

9C4QWXPW+98

OpenStreetMap ID

way 290451585

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

Wikidata ID

Q104866493

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