Barmouth

Barmouth (Welsh Abermaw ) is a city in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales. It lies on the Cardigan Bay, on the north side of the estuary of the Mawddach.

Urban Development

The town of Barmouth originally evolved to the local shipbuilding industry around and became popular in modern times as a holiday resort.

Attractions

The city has several notable buildings, so the medieval tower house " Tŷ Gwyn " and the roundhouse prison " Tŷ crwn " from the 18th century. There is a new Lifeboat Visitor Centre. The harbor is host to the annual " Three Peaks yacht race". The famous mountaineer and yachtsman Bill Tilman lived for many years in Barmouth.

In the district of Llanaber the Church of St. Mary and Bodfan is from the early 13th century.

The Cliff Oleu which rises steeply behind the town in 1895 was the first piece of land that the National Trust has acquired in order to get it to the nation. Just behind the main road takes you up to the Panorama Walk, the trail along the Mawddach Valley.

Traffic

The railway Aberystwyth Pwllheli overcomes the broad estuary of the Mawddach using the Barmouth Bridge, a wooden structure built in 1867. On the south side of the bridge and the now disused railway line Barmouth - Dolgellau led a. The southern end of the bridge is now the beginning of the imaginary for bikers and hikers Mawddach Trail, which uses the old route.

From Barmouth from there a ferry to Penrhyn Point, where you can go to one of the Welsh narrow gauge railways, the Fairbourne Railway switch, and after Fairbourne.

Tourism

A beautiful view of the sea, behind the mountains, the great estuary eight miles far inland, and Cader Idris "Before taking a day trip away; : William Wordsworth, famous holidaymaker in the 19th century, described his impressions of Barmouth about as so Barmouth can stand against any rival. "

Barmouth is ( geographically ), the seaside resort, which the English West Midlands is the next, and a large part of the visitors, but also the inhabitants, coming from Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Dudley and other parts of the Black County.

Swell

• Peter Sager: Wales - DuMont Art Guide; DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1407-8, p 435