Great Orme viewpoint
Great Orme viewpoint
From the Great Orme we can look west across Conwy Bay to Snowdonia and Anglesey. Use the picture below to identify landmarks.
Two headlands, Penmaenbach and Penmaenmawr, flank the former quarrying town of Penmaenmawr and its smaller neighbour Dwygyfylchi. “Pen” = head, “maen” = stone, “bach” = small, “mawr” = big.
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To hear how to pronounce Penmaenmawr, press play: Or, download mp3 (28KB)
Dwygyfylchi means “two circular forts”. The uplands to the south are littered with prehistoric remains.
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Foel Fras, in the Carneddau range, means "coarse hill".
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Llus is Welsh for bilberries.
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Clip yr Orsedd is now the highest point on the high ground south-west of Penmaenmawr, because quarrying in the 19th and 20th centuries greatly reduced the height of the peak further north, on which there were clear remains of a major prehistoric settlement. “Gorsedd” means “throne”.
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Llanfairfechan is one of many places named after St Mary (Mair in Welsh). Many have suffixes to distinguish them, in this case “fechan”, meaning small. “Llan” denotes an area of land enclosed by a wall, in which a church was normally the main feature.
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Postcode: LL30 2XF
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