Penllyn, Criccieth

Name: Penllyn
Address: Criccieth, United Kingdom

#4 among attractions in Criccieth

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Penllyn is a former civil parish in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. The parish was created in 1894 from the part of Criccieth parish that lay outside the ancient borough. It was abolished in 1934, and divided between Llanystumdwy and Criccieth. The area gives its name to a special stage used during the 2013 Wales Rally GB. ()

Coordinates: 52°55'12"N, 4°13'5"W

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Criccieth United Kingdom

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Penllyn – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Harlech Castle, Criccieth Golf Course, Criccieth Castle, Llŷn Coastal Path.

6.1 miSE
Imposing medieval stronghold of Edward I
Harlech Castle, Harlech
157 min walk • Harlech Castle is a majestic medieval fortification located in the coastal town of Harlech, within the scenic landscape of North Wales, United Kingdom. Perched high on a rocky outcrop, it offers breathtaking views of the Irish Sea and the surrounding countryside...
0.8 miNW
Golf
Criccieth Golf Course, Criccieth
20 min walk • Criccieth Golf Club was a golf club based just outside Criccieth at Gwynedd, Wales. A 5787-yard-long, 18 hole hilltop course with par 69 and SSS of 68. The club opened in 1905. In 2015 the club was named among Bryn Terfel's favourite courses in the “Wales Golf Annual Brochure”. This club has a "members only" policy.
0.7 miSW
Forts and castles
Criccieth Castle, Criccieth
17 min walk • Criccieth Castle is a native Welsh castle situated on the headland between two beaches in Criccieth, Gwynedd, in North Wales, on a rocky peninsula overlooking Tremadog Bay.
3.6 miE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Llŷn Coastal Path, Porthmadog
91 min walk • The Llŷn Coastal Path is a waymarked 146-kilometre long-distance footpath running along the coast of the Llŷn Peninsula from Caernarfon to Porthmadog in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. A large part of the Llŷn Peninsula is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
7.4 miNE
Nature, Canyon, Natural attraction
Aberglaslyn Pass, Snowdonia National Park
190 min walk • The Aberglaslyn Pass is a narrow gorge of considerable beauty in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, north Wales. The A498 road/A4085 road follows a relatively level route along the Afon Glaslyn through the pass from Beddgelert to Prenteg and then continues at the edge of the Traeth Mawr via Tremadog to Porthmadog.
7.3 miNE
Bridge
Pont Aberglaslyn, Snowdonia National Park
185 min walk • Pont Aberglaslyn is a stone arch bridge over the Afon Glaslyn and the surrounding hamlet, located near Beddgelert and Nantmor in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
2.1 miW
Specialty museum, History museum, Museum
Lloyd George Museum, Criccieth
55 min walk • The Lloyd George Museum is dedicated to the life and times of David Lloyd George, the Welshman who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. It is located in Lloyd George's home village of Llanystumdwy, Wales, where he is buried, and is run by Gwynedd Council.
6.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Moel Hebog, Snowdonia National Park
164 min walk • Moel Hebog is a mountain in Snowdonia, north Wales which dominates the view west from the village of Beddgelert. It gives name to a whole range of peaks in the north-western corner of Snowdonia, which include the Nantlle Ridge and Mynydd Mawr.
2.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Moel y Gest, Tremadog
64 min walk • Moel y Gest is a 263 m hill to the west of Porthmadog in North Wales. It is a very rocky hill with high topographic prominence because of the lower land that surrounds it on all sides, and qualifies as a Marilyn.
3.5 miE
Church
Peniel Chapel, Tremadog
88 min walk • Peniel Chapel is a former Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Tremadog, Gwynedd. It is one of five Grade I-listed nonconformist chapels in Wales. It is in a neoclassical style inspired by mid-17th century St Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London.
1.1 miNE
Church, Georgian architecture
St Cynhaearn's Church, Tremadog
28 min walk • St Cynhaearn's Church is a redundant church standing in an isolated position on Ynyscynhaearna, a former island in Llyn Ystumllyn, 900 metres south of the village of Pentrefelin, near Criccieth in Gwynedd, Wales.