Porthmadog
Porthmadog known in your area as "Port", is a little Welsh seaside community as well as previous community, currently in the neighborhood of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd. It has actually been so led to formally because 1974. Prior to 1972 in the administrative region of Caernarfonshire, it exists 5 miles (8 km) eastern of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 kilometres) south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles (40 km) north of Dolgellau and 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 4,185 (2011 census). It created in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England and also elsewhere, however because the decline of the market it has actually become a shopping center as well as tourist location. It has very easy accessibility to Snowdonia National Park as well as is the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held in Porthmadog. It includes the close-by towns of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and Tremadog.
