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Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd

Pen-y-groes is a village in Gwynedd, Wales.

The place

Pen-y-groes is a village in Gwynedd, Wales. The village is located to the south of Caernarfon, and north of Porthmadog, by the A487 road. Pen-y-groes' population stands at 1,793 at the 2011 census, of which 88% are Welsh-speaking, making it one of the most predominantly Welsh-speaking areas of the country. The population of Llanllyfni community, which includes Pen-y-groes and Llanllyfni village, which practically adjoins Pen-y-groes, plus Talysarn, is 4,135 according to the 2011 census.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Glynllifon

    Glynllifon is an old estate on the main A499 road between Pwllheli and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales, near the village of Llandwrog. It formerly belonged to the Barons Newborough.

    2.7 km · large country house in Carmarthenshire · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 101 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 117 km · Manchester (MAN), 137 km
Stations
Penygroes railway station, 400 m · Groeslon railway station, 2.9 km · Nantlle railway station, 1.7 km
  • Liverpool → Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £12–16
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £17–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd
    173 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    LundyGB

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

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  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

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  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

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Around it

Next door to Pen-y-groes, Gwynedd

  • Llanllyfnivillage and community in Gwynedd, Wales, UK900 m
  • Llandwrogvillage and community in Gwynedd, Wales, UK2.7 km
  • Talysarnvillage in Gwynedd, Wales1.8 km
  • Nantlle Valleyarea of Gwynedd, Wales3.1 km
  • Groeslonvillage in Gwynedd, Wales, UK1.5 km
  • Nebovillage in Gwynedd, Wales2.8 km