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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Llan Ffestiniog

  

Llan Ffestiniog Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Llan Ffestiniog

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You can visit Llan Ffestiniog places with Walkfo Llan Ffestiniog to hear history at Llan Ffestiniog’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Llan Ffestiniog has 21 places to visit in our interactive Llan Ffestiniog map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Llan Ffestiniog, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Llan Ffestiniog places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Llan Ffestiniog & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 21 audio facts unique to Llan Ffestiniog places in an interactive Llan Ffestiniog map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Llan Ffestiniog Places Map
21 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Llan Ffestiniog tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Llan Ffestiniog

  

Best Llan Ffestiniog places to visit

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Llan Ffestiniog has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Llan Ffestiniog’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Llan Ffestiniog’s information audio spots:

Glynllifon Street railway station Glynllifon Street railway station was a temporary northern terminus station of the Festiniog and Blaenau Railway (F&BR) sited between the street of the same name and Cwmbowydd Road. It was never named.

Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital is a health facility in Blaenau, Gwynedd, Wales. It is managed by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

Car gwyllt The car gwyllt is a Welsh invention used by quarrymen to ride downhill on the steep inclined planes of a slate quarry. The invention was invented by Welsh quarrymen in the 1930s.

Blaenau Ffestiniog Amateur F.C. Blaenau Ffestiniog Amateur Football Club are a Welsh football club. Founded in 1883, they are given the nickname “The Quarrymen” due to the quarry history around the town. The Quarry Men play their home games at Cae Clyd.

Ffestiniog Power Station The Ffestiniog Power Station is a 360-megawatt (480,000 hp) pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme. The station, commissioned in 1963, was the first major pumped storage system in the UK. The scheme has the capacity to power the whole of North Wales for several hours.

Tomen y Mur Tomen y Mur is a First Century AD Roman fort in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales. It was constructed during the campaigns of governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola in AD 78. The fort stood adjacent to the Roman road known as Sarn Helen.

Trawsfynydd nuclear power station Trawsfynydd is the only nuclear power station in the UK to be built inland. The plant became operational in 1965 and was closed in 1991. The Welsh government arranged for the power station to be redeveloped in 2021.

Ffestiniog transmitting station The Ffestiniog transmitting station is located on the slopes of Mynydd Maentwrog in Gwynedd, Wales. It was originally built by the IBA, entering service in early 1969 as a BBC and ITV relay transmitter for the now-defunct 405-line VHF television system.

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