Porthmadog
Porthmadog known locally as "Port", is a little Welsh seaside community and previous community, currently in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd location of Gwynedd. It has actually been so led to officially because 1974. Before 1972 in the management area of Caernarfonshire, it exists 5 miles (8 kilometres) east of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles (40 km) north of Dolgellau as well as 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 also somewhere else, however because the decrease of the sector it has come to be a shopping centre and also traveler location. It has simple accessibility to Snowdonia National Park and 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.