Maen-llwyd
Maen-llwyd is a meadow in Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales. Maen-llwyd is situated nearby to the peak Moel Smytho, as well as near the village Rhosgadfan.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Waunfawr railway station and Moel Tryfan.
Waunfawr railway station
Railway station
Photo: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0.
Waunfawr is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking, to carry dressed slate to Dinas Junction on the London and North Western Railway. Waunfawr railway station is situated 1 mile northeast of Maen-llwyd.
Moel Tryfan
Peak
Moel Tryfan is a small mountain near the villages of Rhosgadfan, Y Fron and Betws Garmon, in northern Gwynedd. The higher and more famous peak of Tryfan above Dyffryn Ogwen has also sometimes been referred to as "Moel Tryfan" in the past.
St Garmon’s Church
Church
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Garmon’s Church is situated 1¼ miles east of Maen-llwyd.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rhosgadfan and Waunfawr.
Rhosgadfan
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly part of the historic county of Caernarfonshire, and within the community of Llanwnda. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, one of the greatest Welsh-language writers of the 20th century; her childhood home is now a museum.
Waunfawr
Village
Photo: Ian Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Waunfawr is a village and community, 6 kilometres SE of Caernarfon, near the Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd, in Wales.
Y Fron
Village
Photo: Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Y Fron, also known locally as Cesarea, after the chapel, is a country village on the south-west side of Moel Tryfan, overlooking the Nantlle Valley, in North Wales, near Rhosgadfan and Carmel, on the tail of Mynydd Mawr, with epic views of Trum Y Ddysgl and Craig Cwm Silyn. Y Fron is situated 2 miles south of Maen-llwyd.
Maen-llwyd
- Type: Meadow
- Location: Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.09561° or 53° 5′ 44″ northLongitude
-4.21538° or 4° 12′ 55″ westOpen location code
9C5Q3QWM+6ROpenStreetMap ID
way 461551234OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=meadow
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