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Waunfawr

Waunfawr is a village and community, 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, Wales.

Waunfawr
Waunfawr · Lesbardd at Welsh Wikipedia
The place

Waunfawr is a village and community, 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, Wales. It is located near Snowdonia (Eryri).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Waunfawr

3 places 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
    Bryn Bras Castle

    Bryn Bras Castle is a Grade II* listed country house located on the old road between Llanrug and Llanberis in Caernarfon, Gwynedd. The house, which remains privately owned, is a Grade II* listed building and its gardens and landscaped park are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

    3.7 km · grade II* listed country house in Gwynedd, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Moel Eilio

    Moel Eilio is a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales, that is situated approximately 3 miles north-west of Snowdon itself. It has two subsidiary tops, Foel Gron and Foel Goch.

    3.5 km · mountain (726m) in Gwynedd, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.3 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.

Go there

Getting to Waunfawr

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 94 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 112 km · Manchester (MAN), 131 km
Stations
Waunfawr railway station, 600 m · Bryngwyn railway station, 3.9 km · Plas-y-Nant railway station, 4 km · Rhostryfan railway station, 3 km · Tryfan Junction railway station, 2.3 km
  • Liverpool → Waunfawr
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–16
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Waunfawr
    137 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £16–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Waunfawr
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Waunfawr

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 Waunfawr. 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

    217 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    281 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    316 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 Waunfawr – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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