Glasinfryn is a small village in
Gwynedd, Wales.
It is situated between the village of
Tregarth
Tregarth is a village near Thomas Telford's A5 London to Holyhead road between the town of Bethesda and the city of Bangor in Gwynedd, north Wales. It is in Llandygai Community. It had a population of over 1,300 as of the 2011 census. .
His ...
and the
city
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of
Bangor, Gwynedd, and in the
community
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of
Pentir. The village is residential in nature but with many outlying farms.
It is noted for having two bridges: one carries the old
Bethesda to
Bangor railway trackbed on an attractive
Victorian architecture
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viaduct; the other is a concrete
flyover built in the 1980s carrying the
A55.
It is credited as the start of the
A4244 road, but in reality the road lies approximately south of the village. "Infryn" means turf, therefore the name of the village means literally "blue/green turf".
References
External links
www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Glasinfryn and surrounding area
Villages in Gwynedd
Pentir
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