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Talsarnau
Talsarnau () is a village and community in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. Its population was 525 in 2001, and had increased to 550 at the 2011 Census. The village of Talsarnau is situated on the A496 coastal road between Maentwrog and Harlech, close to the hamlets of Eisingrug and Llandecwyn. It has one primary school and one pub, "The Ship Aground", which starts serving food from 18:00 (6pm). Talsarnau railway station on the Cambrian Line serves the village. The community also includes Ynys Gifftan and Soar, Gwynedd. Glyn Cywarch To the south of the village, on the Harlech road, stands the Glyn Cywarch estate, a historic home of the Wynn family. The present house was built c.1616 by William and Katherine Wynn. It is a Grade II* listed building, and its gardens are designated, also at Grade II*, on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. Notable people * Mary Evans (1735 – 1789 in Talsarnau), leader of a short- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talsarnau Railway Station
Talsarnau railway station serves the village of Talsarnau on the estuary of the Afon Dwyryd in Gwynedd, Wales. Facilities In early 2015, Talsarnau was one of several stations on the Cambrian Coast Line to get a Harrington Hump (rather than raising the whole platform, a raised area is built where the middle doors of the train are when it stops at Talsarnau) made of paving slabs, cement and tarmac. This means that for those getting off or on the train through the middle doors of the train, the vertical step is very much reduced. Services The station is an unstaffed halt on the Cambrian Coast Railway with passenger services to Porthmadog, Pwllheli, Barmouth and Machynlleth Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a po .... All trains call only on request. The station building i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llandecwyn
Llandecwyn () is a hamlet near Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd, Wales. The bulk of the population (between 40 and 50 houses) is now located around Cilfor close to the A496 road and served by Llandecwyn railway station, with a cluster of under ten houses around the road junction at Capel Brontecwyn half a mile up the hill to the southeast, and other isolated houses and farms scattered across the hillsides. Formerly, there was a sizeable population closer to the Church in Wales, Anglican church of Saint Tecwyn and the lakes: Llyn Tecwyn Isaf, Llyn Tecwyn Isaf and Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf. The church now stands alone, three-quarters of a mile due east of Cilfor. There is a children's play area at Cilfor, but there are no shops or schools. The former parish of Llandecwyn stretched from the estuary of the Afon Dwyryd at Pont Briwet to the hills of the Rhinogs. It included the Bryn Bwbach road from Capel Brontecwyn to Eisingrug, a section of the main A496 road between Llandecwyn and Talsarnau, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soar, Gwynedd
Soar is a small village or hamlet in Gwynedd, Wales. It is located about northeast of Harlech, close to Talsarnau and Llandecwyn. It has no school; children in the hamlet go to school in Talsarnau Talsarnau () is a village and community in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. Its population was 525 in 2001, and had increased to 550 at the 2011 Census. The village of Talsarnau is situated on the A496 coastal road between Maentwrog an .... References External links www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Soar and surrounding area Villages in Gwynedd Villages in Snowdonia Talsarnau Biblical place-names in Wales {{Gwynedd-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eisingrug
Eisingrug (meaning: ''a place where corn was winnowed after husking'') is a rural hamlet near Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales. It is located to the southeast of Porthmadog. Formerly at the edge of the parish of Llandecwyn, the hamlet was served by the church of Saint Tecwyn in the hills above Llandecwyn, and a Wesleyan Methodist chapel at the other end of the Bryn Bwbach to Esingrug road. A Methodist missionary visited Eisingrug in December 1845. The Cambrian Line railway passes close to the village. The nearest railway station is to the north at Talsarnau. In the northeast is the 14th century manor house, Maes-y-Neuadd, formerly home of the Wynn family - land owners, Sheriffs of Merioneth, descended from the 13th Century Osborn Wyddel, Osbwrn Wyddel - 'Osborn the Irishman' - related to the Oakleys of Tan y Bwlch and the Vaughns of Cors y Gedol. To the southwest is The Glyn and Brogyntyn Estate and to the northwest is Black Wood, a conifer plantation on a steep east-facing hillside wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton
Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, FRS (11 October 1886 – 7 September 1959) was a British chemist. After enlisting in the Coldstream Guards, he was seconded to the Department of Explosives Supply and did research into munitions. After the war he studied the vapour pressure of metals before his interest turned to combustion. He pioneered the use of liquid methane as a fuel. Early life Egerton was born in Glyn Cywarch, near Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales, on 11 October 1886, the fourth son of Colonel Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, an officer of the Rifle Brigade and the Royal Horse Guards, and Comptroller to the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and his wife, The Honourable Mary Georgina Ormsby-Gore, the oldest daughter of William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech. He grew up at Glyn Cywarch and Brogyntyn, houses that belonged to his maternal grandfather. He was educated at Eton College, which he entered in 1900. Contemporaries included Robert Strutt, Thomas Ralph Merton and Julian Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Evans (sect Leader)
Mary Evans (, 1735–1789), known as Mari y fantell wen (Mary of the white cloak) was the leader of a short-lived religious sect in Wales whose followers held that she was married to Christ and would never die. The sect soon dissolved after her death. Life Mary Evans was born in 1735, possibly in Ceredigion. She is thought to have come from Anglesey to Merionethshire around 1780. According to some accounts she was a maidservant at the Maentwrog rectory, while others say she lived in Breichiau in Llandecwyn parish, on the border with the Maentwrog. She had left her husband and was living with another man. Mary claimed she was betrothed to Christ, and convinced many people of her tale. She wore a red mantle at the head of a long procession to a marriage festival in Ffestiniog church, followed by a marriage feast in a tavern in Ffestiniog. She received many bridal gifts. The sect became widespread around Ffestiniog, Penmachno and Harlech. The members seem to have been simple, g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlech
Harlech () is a seaside resort and community (Wales), community in Gwynedd, North Wales, and formerly in the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Merionethshire. It lies on Tremadog Bay in the Snowdonia National Park. Before 1966, it belonged to the Meirionydd District of the 1974 County of Gwynedd. Its landmark Harlech Castle was begun in 1283 by Edward I of England, captured by Owain Glyndŵr, and in the 1480s, a stronghold of Henry VII of England, Henry Tudor. Once on a seaside cliff face, it is now half a mile (800 m) inland. New housing has appeared in the low town and in the high town around the shopping street, church and castle. The two are linked by a steep road called "Twtil". Of its 1,447 inhabitants, 51 per cent habitually speak Welsh language, Welsh. The built-up area with Llanfair, Gwynedd, Llanfair had a population of 1,762 in the 2001 census, over half of whom lacked Welsh identity, and the electoral ward which includes Talsarnau 1,997 in the 2011 census ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambrian Line
The Cambrian Line (), sometimes split into the Cambrian Main Line () and Cambrian Coast Line () for its branches, is a railway line that runs from Shrewsbury in England, westwards to Aberystwyth and Pwllheli in Wales. Passenger train services are operated by Transport for Wales Rail, Transport for Wales between the western terminals of Pwllheli railway station, Pwllheli, in Gwynedd, and Aberystwyth railway station, Aberystwyth, in Ceredigion, and the eastern terminal at Shrewsbury railway station, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, as part of the Wales & Borders franchise. The railway line is widely regarded as scenic, as it passes through the Cambrian Mountains in central Wales and along the coast of Cardigan Bay in Snowdonia National Park. The line includes long sections of rural single track and is designated as a community rail partnership. Route From Shrewsbury, the line heads west through northern Powys, serving the towns of Welshpool railway station, Welshpool and Newtown railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Harriet Hughes
Annie Harriet Hughes (1852 – 25 April 1910) was a Welsh language novelist, poet, and newspaper editor, who wrote and published three novels between 1905 and 1908, under the pen-name Gwyneth Vaughan. Early life Ann Harriet Hughes was born at Talsarnau in Merionethshire, the daughter of a miller, and had a basic school education at Llandecwyn. In 1876 she married John Hughes Jones, a doctor in Clwt-y-bont, Caernarvon; but later dropped the "Jones" part of her surname. Ann lived in London and later in Treherbert and Clwt-y-bont. Left to bring up four children on her husband's death in 1902, she moved to Bangor, Gwynedd, and took up writing as a career. Career Hughes completed three novels, and a left a fourth unfinished work. She also edited Welsh versions of three of the works of the Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond and wrote verse in Welsh. She edited the woman's page in the ''Welsh Weekly'' (1892), ''Yr Eryr'' (1894–95) ''Y Cymro'' (1906–07). Death Ann Harriet H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardudwy
Ardudwy () is an area of Gwynedd in north-west Wales, lying between Tremadog Bay and the Rhinogydd. Administratively, under the old Kingdom of Gwynedd, it was first a division of the sub kingdom (cantref) of Dunoding and later a commote in its own right. The fertile swathe of land stretching from Barmouth to Harlech was historically used as pasture. The name exists in the modern community and village of Dyffryn Ardudwy. History and mythology Ardudwy features prominently in Welsh mythology, '' the Triads of the Island of Britain'' heavily associates Ardudwy with the flooding of Cantre'r Gwaelod, stating that survivors of the flooding moved into the area in the time of Ambrosius Aurelianus, as well as surrounding areas that were previously uninhabited. In the Second Branch of the ''Mabinogi,'' Bendigeidfran holds court at Harlech, and his severed head returns there for seven years before it is taken on to Gwales. In the Fourth Branch, Lleu Llaw Gyffes is given Eifionydd and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A496 Road (Great Britain)
The A496 is a major coastal and mountainous road in southern Snowdonia. The road is 32.8 miles in length, from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Llanelltyd, via Harlech. The original northern terminus of the road before A470 re-numbering was Llandudno. The road passes through a diverse landscape, including the mountainous region of Blaenau Ffestiniog, two estuaries, and the Cambrian Coast. Description The northernmost point of the road is the A470 (Church Road) junction at Blaenau Ffestiniog. The road by-passes Glanypwll, Rhiwbryfdir and Tanygrisiau before descending towards the Vale of Ffestiniog along the course of Afon Goedol. The road passes through the village of Maentwrog, before crossing Afon Prysor near the Ceunant Llennyrch National Nature Reserve. The road follows the southern banks of the River Dwyryd, before reaching the Cardigan Bay coast at Talsarnau. The road runs alongside the Cambrian Line railway for much of the coast route, bypassing Harlech before ascending inland vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ynys Gifftan
Ynys Gifftan is an island near the south east shore of Traeth Bach, the Dwyryd estuary near Portmeirion in Gwynedd, north Wales Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic .... There is a public footpath to it across the estuary marked on Ordnance Survey maps but has no definable marks that make it obvious; it can be reached on foot at low tide and is high. Although there is a footpath to the island, the island itself is private property and trespassing is not advised. The island has been uninhabited since the mid-1960s and the island's single cottage is in a state of disrepair. It is one of 43 (unbridged) tidal islands which may be reached on foot from the mainland of Great Britain. References External links Talsarnau Islands of Gwynedd Islands of Wales Landfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
