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Penygroes, Gwynedd

Index Penygroes, Gwynedd

Penygroes is a village in Gwynedd, Wales. [1]

33 relations: Afon Wen, Arfon (Assembly constituency), Arfon (UK Parliament constituency), Betty Williams (politician), Bryn Fôn, Bryn Terfel, Caernarfon, Carmel, Gwynedd, Carnarvonshire Railway, Community (Wales), Cycling infrastructure, Dafydd Glyn Jones, Groeslon, Gwynedd, Hillfort, Iron Age, Lôn Eifion, Llanllyfni, Mabinogion, Middle Ages, Nantlle Vale F.C., Nantlle Valley, Orig Williams, Population, Porthmadog, Quarry, R. Williams Parry, School, Slate, Talysarn, United Kingdom census, 2011, Welsh language, Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle.

Afon Wen

Afon Wen is a small hamlet on the Llŷn peninsula in the Welsh principal area of Gwynedd.

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Arfon (Assembly constituency)

Arfon is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales, created for the 2007 Assembly election.

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Arfon (UK Parliament constituency)

Arfon is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster).

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Betty Williams (politician)

Betty Helena Williams (née Williams; born 31 July 1944) is a Welsh Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Conwy from 1997 to 2010.

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Bryn Fôn

Bryn Fôn (born 27 August 1954) is a Welsh actor and singer-songwriter.

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Bryn Terfel

Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (born 9 November 1965) is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer.

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Caernarfon

Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,615.

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Carmel, Gwynedd

Carmel is a small village near Y Fron in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.

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Carnarvonshire Railway

The Carnarvonshire Railway was a railway connecting Caernarvon railway station (terminus of the Bangor and Caernarvon Railway line from Bangor) with Afon Wen.

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Community (Wales)

A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.

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Cycling infrastructure

Cycling infrastructure refers to all infrastructure which may be used by cyclists.

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Dafydd Glyn Jones

Dafydd Glyn Jones (born 1941) is a Welsh scholar and lexicographer, born in the village of Carmel, Gwynedd.

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Groeslon

Groeslon (Welsh: Y Groeslon, "the crossroads") is a small village in the community of Llandwrog in the Welsh traditional county of Caernarfonshire.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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Lôn Eifion

Lôn Eifion is part of Lôn Las Cymru, the Welsh National Cycle Route, which is about long.

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Llanllyfni

Llanllyfni is a small village and a community in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Mabinogion

The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Nantlle Vale F.C.

Nantlle Vale F.C (Welsh: Clwb Peldroed Dyffryn Nantlle) is a Welsh football club from Penygroes, near Caernarfon, formed around 1920.

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Nantlle Valley

The Nantlle Valley (Dyffryn Nantlle) is an area in Gwynedd, north Wales, characterised by its large number of small settlements.

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Orig Williams

Orig Williams (20 March 1931 – 12 November 2009) was a Welsh professional wrestler and wrestling promoter.

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Population

In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.

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Porthmadog

Porthmadog, known locally as "Port", is a small coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, in Wales.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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R. Williams Parry

Robert Williams Parry (6 March 1884 – 4 January 1956) was one of Wales's most notable 20th-century poets writing in Welsh.

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School

A school is an institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.

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Talysarn

Talysarn is a village in the slate quarrying Nantlle Valley in Gwynedd, Wales.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle

Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle is a bilingual secondary school situated in Penygroes in Gwynedd, north Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penygroes,_Gwynedd

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