Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House
Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House is a monitoring station in Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales. Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House is situated nearby to the forest Nurse Pandy-ddwyryd, as well as near Coed Llenyrch.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Coed y Rhygen National Nature Reserve and Llyn Llennyrch.
Coed y Rhygen National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Coed y Rhygen National Nature Reserve is located on the western shore of Llyn Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd, North Wales. As an example of Atlantic Rainforest, it is very wet and there are many different examples of mosses and liverworts that cover the ground and the trees.
Llyn Llennyrch
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llyn Llennyrch is situated 1 mile west of Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House.
Trawsfynydd nuclear power station
Photo: William M. Connolley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trawsfynydd nuclear power station is a former Magnox nuclear power station situated in Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, Wales. The plant, which became operational in 1965, was the only nuclear power station in the UK to be built inland, with cooling water that was taken from the artificial Llyn Trawsfynydd reservoir which also supplies the hydro-electric Maentwrog power station. Trawsfynydd nuclear power station is situated 1¼ miles east of Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gellilydan and Tan-y-Bwlch.
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.
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. Tan-y-Bwlch is situated 2 miles northwest of Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House.
Trawsfynydd
Village
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trawsfynydd is a linear village in Gwynedd, Wales, near Llyn Trawsfynydd reservoir, and adjacent to the A470 north of Bronaber and Dolgellau and 10 km south of Blaenau Ffestiniog. Trawsfynydd is situated 2½ miles southeast of Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House.
Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House
- Type: Monitoring station
- Category: building
- Location: Maentwrog, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.91859° or 52° 55′ 7″ northLongitude
-3.9759° or 3° 58′ 33″ westOperator
MagnoxOpen location code
9C4RW29F+CJOpenStreetMap ID
way 371552342OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=monitoring_station
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In Other Languages
“Maentwrog Power Station Recorder House” goes by many names.
- Welsh: “Pwerdy Maentwrog Llenyrch Leat”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nurse Pandy-ddwyryd and Coed Llenyrch.
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