Porthmadog
Porthmadog known in your area as "Port", is a small Welsh seaside town as well as former community, currently in the neighborhood of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd. It has actually been so meant formally considering that 1974. Prior to 1972 in the management region of Caernarfonshire, it exists 5 miles (8 kilometres) eastern of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 kilometres) south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles (40 km) north of Dolgellau and 20 miles (32 km) south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 4,185 (2011 census). It established in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England and somewhere else, yet considering that the decline of the sector it has actually come to be a shopping center and tourist destination. It has simple access to Snowdonia National Park and also is the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held in Porthmadog. It includes the neighboring towns of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan as well as Tremadog.
