Porthmadog known locally as "Port", is a small Welsh seaside town and also previous area, now in the neighborhood of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd location of Gwynedd. It has actually been so spelt formally because 1974. Prior to 1972 in the management area of Caernarfonshire, it exists 5 miles (8 kilometres) east 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 somewhere else, yet given that the decline of the industry it has actually ended up being a shopping center as well as vacationer location. 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 consists of the nearby towns of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and also Tremadog.