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Garndolbenmaen (nicknamed ''Garn'') is a village in the county of
Gwynedd Gwynedd () is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The ci ...
, Wales. It lies near the
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, approximately north west of
Porthmadog Porthmadog (), originally Portmadoc until 1972 and known locally as "Port", is a coastal town and community (Wales), community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, Wales, and the historic counties of Wales, historic county of Caernarfonshire. It li ...
, in the
community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
of Dolbenmaen, which has a population of 1,300. The closest villages are
Dolbenmaen Dolbenmaen () is a village and community (Wales), community in the Wales, Welsh county of Gwynedd, located in Eifionydd, of which it was the administrative centre until 1239. The community includes the villages of Bryncir (), Cenin, Garndolbenm ...
and Bryncir. The '' Papur Bro'', the local
Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic languages, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about 18% of the population, by some in England, and in (the Welsh c ...
paper, is called ''Y Ffynnon'' (The Source/Spring). The village itself has a population of around 300. In 1856-7 Evan Jones of Garndolbenmaen built the Ynys-y-Pandy Mill on the nearby Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway. Approximately 50 pupils attend Ysgol Gynradd Garndolbenmaen, many pupils travel from nearby villages including
Pant Glas ; as in other Celtic languages, "glas" may mean both 'green' and 'blue') is a hamlet on the A487 road in Gwynedd, Wales, in the community of Clynnog. Historically in Caernarfonshire, it is located approximately south of Caernarfon, north-west ...
, Bryncir, Cwm Pennant and
Golan Golan (; ) is the name of a biblical town later known from the works of Josephus (first century CE) and Eusebius (''Onomasticon'', early 4th century CE). Archaeologists localize the biblical city of Golan at Sahm el-Jaulān, a Syrian village eas ...
. The number of pupils attending the school has remained consistent over the past 20 years. Many of the old cottages in Garndolbenmaen have been turned into
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s. Blaen y Cae recording studios are located in the village, where Pep Le Pew's album, ''Un tro yn y Gorllewin'' and the last album by
Gwyneth Glyn Gwyneth Glyn (born Gwyneth Glyn Evans, 14 December 1979) is a Welsh language poet and musician. Biography Gwyneth Glyn was born in St David's Hospital in Bangor, Gwynedd, and grew up at her family home in Llanarmon. She was educated at Ysgol ...
, ''Wyneb Dros Dro'', were recorded. The magazine Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review is published in Garndolbenmaen


Climate

Garndolbenmaen has an
oceanic climate An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen climate classification, Köppen classification represented as ''Cfb'', typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of co ...
(
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: ''Cfb'').


References

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