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Snowdonia, or Eryri (Welsh: ⓘ), is a mountainous region and national park in North Wales.It contains all 15 mountains in Wales over 3000 feet high, including the country's highest, Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), which is 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) tall.
Eryri: 1923 2870 0-4-2 RT: Withdrawn Dismantled and stored off-site. It is unlikely that this locomotive will be returned to service. Eryri is loosely pronounced “Air-ruhr-ree” and is the Welsh name for Snowdonia. [9]: 99 — — 1949 Diesel locomotive 0-4-0 DM: Scrapped Bought second-hand from a quarry in 1972 as a potential shunter.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:27, 29 October 2010: 1,025 × 1,305 (1.28 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Map of Snowdonia National Park, UK with the following information shown: *National Park boundary *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projecti
Following the Environment Act 1995, each national park has been managed by its own national park authority, a special purpose local authority, since April 1997. [5]Around half the members of each national park authority are appointees from the principal local authorities covered by the park; the remainder are appointed by the Senedd, some to represent the community councils, others selected to ...
Snowdon is designated a national nature reserve for its rare flora and fauna, and is located within Snowdonia National Park. The rocks that form Snowdon were produced by volcanoes in the Ordovician period, and the massif has been extensively sculpted by glaciation , forming the pyramidal peak of Snowdon and the arêtes of Crib Goch and Y Lliwedd .
The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR; Welsh: Rheilffordd Eryri) is a restored 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd.It runs 25-mile (40.2 km) from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passes through a number of popular tourist destinations including Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass.
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro) – is a national park along the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales. It was established as a National Park in 1952, and is the only one in the United Kingdom to have been designated primarily because of its spectacular coastline. It covers an area of 629 square kilometres (243 ...
Coed y Brenin (Welsh for King's Forest) is a forest in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales near Dolgellau at grid reference. It is popular for its mountain bike trails and hiking paths. It has several man-made mountain bike singletrack courses in a woodland setting, varying in length from 12 to 38 km (7 to 23 mi), and one dual slalom course.