Porthmadog
Porthmadog known in your area as "Port", is a small Welsh seaside community as well as former area, currently in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd location of Gwynedd. It has actually been so led to officially given that 1974. Before 1972 in the administrative county of Caernarfonshire, it exists 5 miles (8 kilometres) east of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles (40 kilometres) north of Dolgellau and 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 4,185 (2011 census). It developed in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England and somewhere else, but since the decrease of the sector it has actually ended up being a shopping center as well as visitor location. It has simple accessibility to Snowdonia National Park as well as is the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held in Porthmadog. It consists of the neighboring villages of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and also Tremadog.