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Rhostryfan

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

Rhostryfan
Rhostryfan · Geoff Charles
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Moel 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

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 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 → Rhostryfan
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £12–16
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rhostryfan
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Rhostryfan
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · £21–29
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-01.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    215 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    317 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    335 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    335 km

If you know how people move in Rhostryfan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Rhostryfan

  • Waunfawrvillage and community in Gwynedd, Wales3.2 km
  • Bontnewyddvillage and community in Gwynedd, Wales2.6 km
  • Llanwndavillage in Gwynedd, Wales2.1 km
  • Rhosgadfanvillage in Gwynedd, Wales1.2 km
  • Caeathrovillage in Gwynedd, Wales2.6 km
  • Carmelvillage in Gwynedd, Wales, UK2.9 km