Porthmadog
Porthmadog well-known locally as "Port", is a small Welsh coastal town as well as former neighborhood, now in the neighborhood of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd. It has actually been so meant officially because 1974. Prior to 1972 in the management county of Caernarfonshire, it lies 5 miles (8 km) eastern of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles (40 km) north of Dolgellau as well as 20 miles (32 km) 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 as well as somewhere else, however given that the decline of the sector it has ended up being a mall and also vacationer 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 towns of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan as well as Tremadog.