Porthmadog
Porthmadog well-known in your area as "Port", is a little Welsh coastal community and also former neighborhood, now in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd. It has actually been so spelt formally considering that 1974. Prior to 1972 in the administrative region 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 created in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England as well as somewhere else, but because the decrease of the sector it has actually become a mall and also vacationer destination. It has simple access to Snowdonia National Park and is the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held in Porthmadog. It consists of the nearby villages of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan as well as Tremadog.
