Penmaenmawr place names

Penmaenmawr place names

Penmaenmawr takes its name from the headland west of the town. Pen means head, maen means stone, and mawr means large.

Tourism boosted Penmaenmawr’s growth after the railway’s arrival. It eclipsed the older settlement of Dwygyfylchi, whose name is now applied to the village a kilometre or two east of Penmaenmawr.

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