Porthmadog
Porthmadog well-known in your area as "Port", is a little Welsh seaside community and also former area, now in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth in the Eifionydd location of Gwynedd. It has actually been so meant formally since 1974. Prior to 1972 in the management region of Caernarfonshire, it exists 5 miles (8 km) eastern of Criccieth, 11 miles (18 kilometres) south-west of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 miles (40 km) north of Dolgellau and 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 4,185 (2011 census). It developed in the 19th century as a port exporting slate to England and also elsewhere, however because the decrease of the sector it has actually become a mall as well as traveler destination. It has simple accessibility to Snowdonia National Park and also is the terminus of the Ffestiniog Railway. The 1987 National Eisteddfod was held in Porthmadog. It includes the nearby towns of Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan as well as Tremadog.