Ganllwyd

Ganllwyd is a small village and community in southern Gwynedd, Wales. It lies in the Snowdonia National Park to the north of Dolgellau. A470 passes through it. The Community population taken at the 2011 Census was 179.

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Vinony's link graph records 223 inbound references to Ganllwyd, and connects out to Aberdaron, Bangor and Blaenau Ffestiniog.

The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.

It sits within the topics Communities in Gwynedd, Ganllwyd and Sites of Special Scientific Interest in East Gwynedd.

Vinony links it to 11 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

UK place.country: Wales
UK place.official_name: Ganllwyd
UK place.static_image_name: Stone built house and chapel at Y Ganllwyd - geograph.org.uk - 542558.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Stone house and chapel in Ganllwyd
UK place.population: 179
UK place.population_ref: (2011)
UK place.community_wales: Ganllwyd
UK place.unitary_wales: Gwynedd
UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly: Dwyfor Meirionnydd
UK place.constituency_westminster: Dwyfor Meirionnydd
UK place.post_town: DOLGELLAU
UK place.postcode_district: LL40
UK place.postcode_area: LL
UK place.dial_code: 01341
UK place.os_grid_reference: SH726244
UK place.module: 240pxMap of the community

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Ganllwyd
Population: 178
Area: 4483
Image: Stone built house and chapel at Y Ganllwyd - geograph.org.uk - 542558.jpg

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Commons category: Ganllwyd
OS grid reference: SH726244
P12749: Chanakya

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Geography
Features
Governance
References

==Geography== The village, which lies where the old Roman road used to ford the River Eden just before it joins with the rivers Mawddach and River Gamlan has 3 large waterfalls and many smaller ones all within Coed y Brenin (the forest of the king).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ganllwyd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.