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Wales is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of Ontario's Lost Villages, which were permanently flooded by the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958. The town was named for the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) who visited the area during his Canadian tour of 1860. Wales was built on the land grant of Dr. James ...
Pwllheli Lifeboat Station is located in the town of Pwllheli, which sits on the Llŷn Peninsula, in the historic county of Gwynedd, Wales. A lifeboat station was first established here by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in 1891. [1] The station currently operates a D-class (IB1) lifeboat, Robert J Wright (D-811), on station since ...
In the 19th century, north Wales lacked good roads, so the sea was the easiest way to access many places. Porthdinllaen, on the northern coast of the Llŷn peninsula, with its sheltered north-facing bay, became important as a harbour of refuge and a busy port, with over 700 ships passing through the port in 1861.
Pwllheli (Welsh: [pʊɬˈhɛli] ; listen ⓘ) is a market town and community on the Llŷn Peninsula (Welsh: Penrhyn Llŷn), in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011, which declined slightly to 3,947 in 2021; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ better source needed ] a large proportion (81%) were Welsh speaking. [ 3 ]
Butlin's Pwllheli was a holiday camp located near Pwllheli in Wales. The site is now used by Haven Holidays for a caravan park and has been renamed Hafan y Môr . When originally opened in 1947, it was named Butlins Pwllheli, but in 1990 was renamed Starcoast World .
Pwllheli South This page was last edited on 13 October 2024, at 19:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Pwllheli South (De Pwllheli since 2022) has been an electoral ward to Gwynedd Council since 1995, electing one county councillor.It was represented by Plaid Cymru's Alan Williams from 1995, but won by Bob Wright for Llais Gwynedd at the May 2008 elections.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) doubled the track between Pwllheli station and the goods yard in order to increase capacity. But after the goods yard was closed and both the signal boxes and the signals were removed in 1977, the double-lined section is now used as a long run-round loop for visiting charter trains.