Pen-y-groes
Penygroes or Pen-y-groes may refer to any of several places in Wales: *Penygroes, Gwynedd ** Penygroes railway station, a former station in the town *Penygroes, Pembrokeshire *Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire Pen-y-groes is a village in Carmarthenshire, South Wales which developed as a settlement as a result of the anthracite coal trade. The main colliery was the Emlyn colliery, which opened in 1893 and closed in 1939. The village has a primary sch ...

Penygroes, Gwynedd
Penygroes () is a village in Gwynedd, Wales. The village is located to the south of Caernarfon, and north of Porthmadog, by the A487 road. Penygroes' population stands at 1,793 at the 2011 census, of which 88% are Welsh-speaking, making it one of the most predominantly Welsh-speaking areas of the country. The population of Llanllyfni community, which includes Penygroes and Llanllyfni village, which practically adjoins Penygroes, plus Talysarn, is 4,135 according to the 2011 census. Etymology The name of the village is derived from ' "end" + ' " fthe" + ' "cross oads, referring to the crossing at the village of the roads from Carmel, Rhyd-ddu and Pontllyfni with the main Caernarfon–Porthmadog road. History and amenities Penygroes is located in the former slate quarrying area of Dyffryn Nantlle, although most of the quarries are now closed down. However, it remains the valley's main shopping and administrative centre. Its biggest employer is a paper-converting plant producing ...
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Penygroes Railway Station
Penygroes railway station was located in Penygroes, Gwynedd, Wales. The narrow gauge, horse-drawn Nantlle Railway had a station near the site from 1856. From the outset timetables appeared regularly in the "Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald" and in Bradshaw from October 1856. In 1865 the narrow gauge line was closed, to be replaced and updated to standard gauge with contemporary facilities. It reopened in its eventual form in 1867 and closed in December 1964. The station served as the junction station for the short branch to which was overlain in 1872 on part of the former Nantlle Railway route, but its main purpose was for traffic on the former Carnarvonshire Railway line from to and beyond. When the line and station were first opened in 1867 a locomotive was hired from the Cambrian Railways. A Cambrian driver, who had never been over the line before, was retained to drive the first directors' inspection special from to . On the return journey the loco ran short of coal and ra ...
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Penygroes, Pembrokeshire
Penygroes () is a scattered rural hamlet in north Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the northern foothills of the Preseli Mountains. It is in the parish of Eglwyswen, the community of Crymych and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Description Penygroes is a scattered hamlet at about in elevation, with a few dwellings and farms, in a broad valley under the northern edge of the Preseli Mountains. Agriculture In the west of the hamlet, on the parish boundary with Meline Meline may refer to: Places * Meline, a parish in north Pembrokeshire in the Diocese of St David's People * Jules Méline, French statesman and prime minister *Jaime Meline or El-Producto, an American rapper, producer and entrepreneur * Meline ..., was a woollen factory close to the brook known as Afon Clun-maen which rises in the mountains and flows northwards past a farm now known as Glynmaen. At one time it would have been active at shearing time for the sheep that have been grazed on the unenclosed moorland to ...
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