Q203387
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Betws-y-Coed () is a village and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The village is located near the confluence of the River Conwy and the River Llugwy and is on the eastern edge of Snowdonia. The population of the community as of the 2021 census was 476, a decline on the previous census.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.official_name
- Betws-y-Coed
- UK place.community_wales
- Betws-y-Coed
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Conwy
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Clwyd
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Aberconwy
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bangor Aberconwy
- UK place.post_town
- BETWS-Y-COED
- UK place.postcode_district
- LL24
- UK place.postcode_area
- LL
- UK place.dial_code
- 01690
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SH795565
- UK place.population
- 476
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 census)
- UK place.static_image_name
- Betws-y-Coed - geograph.org.uk - 1917328.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- A5 trunk road through Betws-y-Coed
- UK place.module
- 240pxMap of the community
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Official name
- Betws-y-coed
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Conwy County Borough
- Population
- 534
- Area
- 1798.01
- Official website
- www.betws-y-coed.co.uk
- Image
- Betws-y-coed o'r awyr - aerial view of Betws-y-coed, Gwynedd, Wales 27.jpg
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- Commons category
- Betws-y-Coed
- topic's main category
- Category:Betws-y-Coed
- OS grid reference
- SH795565
- postal code
- LL24
- located in protected area
- Eryri National Park
- historic county
- Denbighshire
- P8168
- Bellenod-sur-Seine
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Spezia Calcio
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Places of worship
- Governance
- Administrative history
- Transport
- Railway
- Buses
- Road
- Tourism
- Music
- References
- External links
Betws-y-Coed () is a village and community in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The village is located near the confluence of the River Conwy and the River Llugwy and is on the eastern edge of Snowdonia. The population of the community as of the 2021 census was 476, a decline on the previous census.
The name of the village means "prayer-house in the woods", and a monastery is known to have existed in the area in the sixth century. The oldest parts of St Michael's Church, which lies to the north-east of the village, date to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Betws-y-Coed remained a small agricultural community until the nineteenth century, when a lead mining industry developed and part of Thomas Telford's London to Holyhead road (the present A5) was constructed through the village in 1815, followed by a railway station in 1865. These new transport links encouraged new developments to serve tourists, such as the Church of St Mary, and the area became popular with landscape artists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q203387” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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