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Frongoch
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Frongoch is a village located in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies close to the market town of Bala, on the A4212 road.
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Vinony's link graph records 226 inbound references to Frongoch, and connects out to Aberdaron, World War I and prisoner of war.
It is catalogued under topics including Llandderfel, Villages in Gwynedd and Villages in Snowdonia.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Y Frongoch
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Fron-goch
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Llandderfel
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Frongoch station, Nr Bala, Gwynedd - geograph.org.uk - 66859.jpg
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- Commons category
- Frongoch
- OS grid reference
- SH905392
- historic county
- Merionethshire
- P8168
- Ambérieux-en-Dombes
- P12749
- Tha Phae
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Whisky
- Prison camp
- Railway station
- Cwmtirmynach Chapel
- Education
- References
- External links
Frongoch is a village located in Gwynedd, Wales. It lies close to the market town of Bala, on the A4212 road.
It was the home of the Frongoch internment camp, used to hold German prisoners-of-war during First World War, and then Irish Republican prisoners from the 1916 Rising.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frongoch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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