Visit Tanygrisiau Places

Welcome to Visit Tanygrisiau Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Tanygrisiau

  

Tanygrisiau Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Tanygrisiau

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Tanygrisiau geography / climate

The Moelwyns protect the village from much of the wind from northerly gales in the winter. However rainfall in the upper end of the Ffestiniog valley can be very high all year around.

You can visit Tanygrisiau places with Walkfo Tanygrisiau to hear history at Tanygrisiau’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tanygrisiau has 40 places to visit in our interactive Tanygrisiau 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 Tanygrisiau, 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 Tanygrisiau places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tanygrisiau & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 40 audio facts unique to Tanygrisiau places in an interactive Tanygrisiau map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Tanygrisiau Places Map
40 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Tanygrisiau historic spots	Tanygrisiau tourist destinations	Tanygrisiau plaques	Tanygrisiau geographic features
Walkfo Tanygrisiau tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Tanygrisiau

  

Best Tanygrisiau places to visit

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

Moelwyn Mawr Moelwyn Mawr is a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales. Its summit overlooks the Vale of Ffestiniog and has views in all directions.

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.

Conglog quarry Conglog quarry was a small enterprise situated to the north-west of Tanygrisiau, near Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales. It was overshadowed by the much bigger Rhosydd quarry a little further to the west.

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