Rhostryfan
Rhostryfan is a village 4 miles from Caernarfon, in the community of Llanwnda, in the principal area of Gwynedd, Wales.

Rhostryfan is a village 4 miles from Caernarfon, in the community of Llanwnda, in the principal area of Gwynedd, Wales. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 722. It was formerly served by Rhostryfan railway station.
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Worth seeing in and around Rhostryfan
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.
- 01Moel Tryfan
Moel Tryfan is a small mountain near the villages of Rhosgadfan, Y Fron and Betws Garmon, in northern Gwynedd, Wales. The higher and more famous peak of Tryfan above Dyffryn Ogwen has also sometimes been referred to as "Moel Tryfan" in the past.
2.5 km · hill (429m) in Gwynedd · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rhostryfan
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 97 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 112 km · Manchester (MAN), 134 km
- Stations
- Dinas railway station, 2.1 km · Waunfawr railway station, 3.2 km · Bontnewydd railway station, 2.8 km · Rhostryfan railway station, 200 m · Tryfan Junction railway station, 1.3 km
- Liverpool → Rhostryfan91 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £12–16
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rhostryfan140 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–22
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Rhostryfan172 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · £21–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rhostryfan
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 Rhostryfan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inis a request stop on the main line between Holyhead, where ferries from Ireland berth, and Bangor, just across the Menai Strait on the Welsh mainland.
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- Rhosgadfanvillage in Gwynedd, Wales1.2 km
- Caeathrovillage in Gwynedd, Wales2.6 km
- Carmelvillage in Gwynedd, Wales, UK2.9 km