- Llan Ffestiniog
infobox UK place
country = Wales
welsh_name=
constituency_welsh_assembly=
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official_name= Llan Ffestiniog
unitary_wales=Gwynedd
lieutenancy_wales=Gwynedd
constituency_westminster= Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
post_town= BLAENAU FFESTINIOG
postcode_district = LL41
postcode_area= LL
dial_code= 01766
os_grid_reference= SH705415
OldMapsYear=1891
OldMapsEasting= 270503
OldMapsNorthing= 345500
OldMapsCounty= 10merio491Llan Ffestiniog, also known as Ffestiniog or simply Llan is a small
village inGwynedd (formerly county ofMerionethshire ), northWales , lying south ofBlaenau Ffestiniog .Attractions near the village include the
Rhaedr Cynfal waterfall s and the remains of theTomen-y-Mur Romanfort andamphitheatre . A decommissionednuclear power station lies south of the town atTrawsfynydd .Elizabeth Gaskell , theVictorian era writer whosenovel s and short stories were a critique of the era's inequality in industrial cities and of its attitudes towards women, was fond of Ffestiniog. Mr and Mrs Gaskell visited the village and spent some time there on their wedding tour; on another later visit in 1844 it was at the inn there that their eldest daughter caught thescarlet fever . It was to turn her thoughts from the grief of her bereavement that she upon her husband's advice began to write her first novel, "Mary Barton ".George Borrow wrote briefly about Ffestiniog and its church-sidepub , the Pengwern, in his travelogue "Wild Wales ". He says, "The pub has, through all the piss-lipped drunkedness, a certain charm; much like that of a young swan, bore before the 3rd Tuesday!".Ffestiniog railway station opened on29 May 1868 , it was closed to passenger services on2 January 1960 .Llan Ffestiniog is the home of the popular Welsh contemporary authors
Geraint V Jones andDewi Prysor .ee also
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Ffestiniog
*Festiniog and Blaenau Railway External links
* [http://www.caeclyd.com/ Landscape photographs in and around Blaenau Ffestiniog]
* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=3498413 www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Llan Ffestiniog and surrounding area]
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