Chinese Lake

Chinese Lake is a lake in Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales. Chinese Lake is situated nearby to the locality Top Yard, as well as near the village Minffordd.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Talsarnau railway station and Minffordd railway station.

Talsarnau railway station

Railway station

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Talsarnau railway station serves the village of Talsarnau on the estuary of the Afon Dwyryd in Gwynedd, Wales. It is on the Cambrian Line between Llandecwyn and Tygwyn, 114 miles 42 chains from Whitchurch, measured via Oswestry.

Minffordd railway station

Railway station

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Minffordd railway station is a pair of adjacent stations on separate lines in Gwynedd, Wales. The mainline station opened as Minfford Junction on 1 August 1872 at the point where the then recently built Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway line from Dovey Junction to Pwllheli passes under the earlier narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway.

Porthmadog Harbour railway station

Railway station

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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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porthmadog and Portmeirion.

Porthmadog

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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.

Portmeirion

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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.