Penrhyndeudraeth (headland/promontory with two beaches in Welsh) is a village in Gwynedd, Wales. It is located between the Traeth Mawr (big beach), the now largely reclaimed estuary of the River Glaslyn, and the Traeth Bach (little beach), the estuary of the River Dwyryd. The village is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 from Porthmadog. Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Gwynedd is an administrative county in Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. ... This article is about the country. ... The Traeth Mawr (Welsh for big sand) is a polder near Portmadoc in Gwynedd in Wales. ... Glaslyn Gorge The River Glaslyn ( Afon Glaslyn in Welsh) is a small river in North Wales. ... River Dywryd (in Welsh Afon Dwyryd) is a river in North Wales which flows principally westwards draining to the sea into Tremadog Bay south of Porthmadog . ... The A487 is a major road in Wales, running up the west coast. ... Porthmadog, (Pronounced Port Madock), known locally as Port, is a small coastal town located in Gwynedd, in north-west Wales, traditionally part of Caernarfonshire. ...

The present village was laid out in the second half of the nineteenth century by the local landowner David Williams of Castell Deudraeth at Minffordd on land reclaimed by the drainage of stagnant marshes. The older settlement at Upper Penrhyn was originally called Cefn Coch (Red Ridge) and that name is perpetuated by the Penrhyndeudraeth primary school, which is known as Ysgol Cefn Coch. Translation meaning Lip of the Road There are 2 stations co-located at right angles to each other. ...

The village has two stations, Penrhyndeudraeth railway station on the southern side of the village on the Cambrian Coast Railway from Pwllheli to Shrewsbury and to the north, Penrhyn railway station, on the A4085 near the top of the hill, on the Ffestiniog Railway. Penrhyndeudraeth railway station is a railway station serving the small town of Penrhyndeudraeth on the Lleyn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales. ... The Cambrian Line is a railway from Shrewsbury (in Shropshire, England) to Welshpool, Aberystwyth and Pwllheli. ... Pwllheli is the main market town of the LlÅ·n Peninsula in [[Gwynedd], north-western Wales. ... Shrewsbury (pronounced either or ) is a town of 70,560 inhabitants [1] in Shropshire, England. ... (Penrhyndeudraeth meaning Headland between two beaches ) This station on the Ffestiniog Railway is located on a restricted site at Pen-y-Bwlch above the town of Penrhyndeudraeth, the station opened on 6 January 1865. ... The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain List of A roads beginning with 4 in Great Britain starting north of the A4 and south/west of the A5. ... The Ffestiniog Railway (in Welsh Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in North West Wales. ...

The village is at the junction of the A487 with the A4085 which connects with Beddgelert. The first section of this road is very narrow and rises steeply through Upper Penrhyn. In places it is so narrow that only a single vehicle can pass. Beddgelert is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, lying in Snowdonia. ...

To the south is a toll road leading over a wooden bridge providing a short-cut to the Harlech road. This toll bridge (at Pont Briwet, grid reference SH619383) provides stunning views of the Dwyryd estuary, only spoiled by the electricity pylons crossing immediately downstream. The bridge is also shared with the main line railway. The word toll has several meanings. ... Harlech is a town and seaside resort in North Wales, lying on Tremadog Bay, and within the Snowdonia National Park. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...

Prior to the economic growth of the 19th century following the many land reclamation projects (including the Cob at Porthmadog) and also the building of the Ffestiniog Railway, the few local inhabitants relied on agriculture and small scale copper mining. Some men worked boats on the river Dwyryd, carrying slate from Maentwrog to the sea for export. Local women at that time gathered cockles in the estuary for sale in local markets.

The main manufacturing industry in Penrhyndeudraeth was established in 1872 to make Gun Cotton. It became Cook's Explosives in 1922 and was taken over by Nobel and later still by I.C.I. Many here lost their lives during accidents at the works, where there is a slate plaque to remember them and everyone who worked there. The works closed and the site was finally cleared in 1997 and is now a nature reserve notable for the presence in summer of Nightjars. Nitrocellulose Nitrocellulose Nitrocellulose (also: cellulose nitrate, flash paper) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through, for example, exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent. ... This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... A nature reserve (natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve) is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ... Binomial name Caprimulgus europaeus Linnaeus, 1758 The European Nightjar, or just Nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus, is the only representative of the nightjar family of birds in most of Europe and temperate Asia. ...

Another 19th century industry in the district is Garth Quarry at Minffordd, which was established in 1870 to make granite setts for road building in Victorian towns and cities and like the explosives industry this relied heavily on the coming of the Cambrian Railways in 1872. The quarry is still working and now produces roadstone and railway ballast. Cambrian Railways owned a total of 230 miles of track, over a large area of mid-Wales. ...

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