PORTHMADOG | Tour of Porthmadog North Wales
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Welcome to Porthmadog in North Wales, situated on the edge of The Snowdonia National Park. A beautiful coastal harbour town, home to the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Heritage Railway.
We come to North Wales for a walking tour of Porthmadog (close to Portmeirion) to have a look around the town, explore the harbour and take a look at the railway station here.
You will find lots of shops and cafe's in Porthmadog as well as places to stay, so you can use the town as your base for exploring North Wales and Snowdonia.
A busy harbour town with a good range of shops and attractions, including nearby Portmeirion. You can’t keep narrow-gauge railway enthusiasts away. Porthmadog is a major hub, with no less than three lines - the Ffestiniog (running to Blaenau Ffestiniog), the Welsh Highland Railway (running all the way to Caernarfon) and the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway (with its excellent hands-on railway museum).
Trains were not the only mode of transport in Porthmadog’s history as an important hub based on the slate industry. The town’s Maritime Museum tells the story of the town’s rapid 19th-century growth into a thriving slate exporting and shipbuilding port for handsome three-masted schooners known as Western Ocean Yachts. Porthmadog’s best-loved landmark is The Cob, a mile-long embankment across the estuary that shaped the destiny of the town.
Porthmadog is a good base for walkers and cyclists - follow the Wales Coast Path and Lôn Ardudwy bike route.
Known locally as ‘Port,’ Porthmadog is situated on the edge of The Snowdonia National Park on the estuary of the Afon Glaslyn as it runs into Tremadog Bay. It’s one of the largest towns in Snowdonia with a population of around 4,200. It has a good selection of shops which make it a natural base for holidaymakers who want to explore Snowdonia and the coastline of the Llŷn Peninsula.
It’s one of the newest towns in Wales, only being created in 1810-1811 after William Madocks built a sea wall (The Cob) and reclaimed a 7,000 acres of Traeth Mawr (The Big Beach). This also happened to create a new natural harbour deep enough for small sailing ships that started to appear around 1825 with the first appearance of the name ‘Port Madoc’ in 1830 when the Ffestiniog Railway opened.
Porthmadog developed as a famous port later in the nineteenth century when it began exporting the slate produced at the quarries in Ffestiniog and Llanfrothen to roof houses in the expanding towns and cities in England and all over the world. By 1873 more than a thousand ships carrying over 116,000 tons of slate left Porthmadog.
The tracks and locos left behind after the slate trade also make it one of the most popular tourist areas in Wales being the hub of the Ffestiniog Railway, The Welsh Highland Railway and the smaller Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. It’s also one of the stations on the Cambrian Coast main line which runs along the coast from Pwllheli on the Llŷn Peninsula to Machynlleth, there is goes on to Shrewsbury in the East or Aberystwyth in the South.
Porthmadog station is on the Cambrian Coast Line which runs from Machynlleth to Pwllheli. Travel to Machynlleth is from either Aberystwyth or Shrewsbury.
The town is also served by the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway from Blaneau Ffestiniog, Welsh Highland Railway from Caernarfon and the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway.
I hope you enjoy this North Wales walking tour of Porthmadog from Gimbal Walk TV, and that it inspires you to come here for a visit!
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Have been visiting Porthmadog since 1961 last there 2022, love this part of the world. Definitely worth the drive from Nottingham!
North Wales has great scenery, but South west Wales has the best beaches
@@iandavies6575 can’t argue with that!!
Fantastic my partner and I where there only last week. We stayed in the Premier Inn and our room looked out over the railway 🚂 I just love watching the train's and there's something magical about when they cross the road and up the road to the station.
The Port Café highly recommended fantastic food
A nice walk through town! The harbor was very nice also. The water was so blue!!
Really enjoyed this walk loved the train at the beginning. Looks such a peaceful place thanks for taking me and keep on walking 🚶🏻👍❤️
Thank you too!
Forever memories of this train taken back to Ohio ❤
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Another amazing video. Thank you so much. We visit Porthmadog every time we stay in Portmeirion (which is probably a lot for a Canadian couple). It's so nice to see the little familiar shops we visit every time we go. Some of our luggage and my swimming trunks that we bring anywhere we travel came from The Original Factory Shop. Always a good place to find essentials
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
Awesome! Took me back to childhood with memories of our harbour house next to the steam railway, thank you!
Our pleasure!
Happy to see you are back over here. All your films are brilliant, but British are always the best. Love your filming. Never stop.💟💯🚶♂️
Thank you!
PORTHMADOG
Early in the 19th century, William Madocks, M.P. for Boston in Lincolnshire, gained the approval of Parliament for the building of a mile long embankment across the mouth of the Glaslyn Estuary. This embankment, which for many years has carried both road and narrow gauge railway, and is known as The Cob, reclaimed nearly 7000 acres from the sea and made Porthmadog a major port for the then rapidly growing slate industry.
So much more to be seen in Porthmadog.
Of course
Greetings from Toronto, Canada ... love your vids. This is a beautiful little place ... clean & peaceful.
I’ve enjoyed the video, I love the railway, and the way it comes onto the road. Thanks for this walk and I look forward to the next Wales video.
How well the music fitted in to the peacefulness of the place ....
Thank you 🙏
Great video, have visited Portmadog numerous times when our children were small now taking the two grandchildren. Have been on the train 3 times love it. 👍 👍 👍 👍
Love it here. We went up from Barmouth and spent a couple of hours here before going to Portmerion
That sounds perfect to me!
Lovely place….. l remember it well ❤
Went there few years ago Porthmadog lovely town and haven site black rock sands greenacres site
Once again Great 🚶🚶and scenery !! 👍👍👍
A good video of PORTHMADOG | Tour of Porthadog North Wales!.💜💜💜💜💜💜
Thanks MIchael!
Thank you fumble😊, enjoy your trip,
Thank you too!
Always great videos, best channel on UA-cam,
Wow, thanks!
Loved catching a train here … so cute and small back then …. over 40yrs ago ❤
Looks like the place has continued to prosper ❤
Definitely
Beautiful x
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful video!
Thank you
Best UA-cam channel for feel good factor 👌. Many thanks Mr Gimbal 😃💖. Absolutely love your work 💯.
Wow, thanks! Really appreaciate that!
Here here 💯♥️
Caravan holidays there for years with my 2 girls,who are now 41 and 38,fond memories. Ty ❤
Great tour! Thank you for sharing :)
Thank you 🙏
Love the station
Very relaxing - that cafe looked nice too!
Great video we go Porthmadog a lot now going Friday this video got me in the holiday mood 😎
Enjoy - lovely place that!
liman sahıl kasabası herhalde ben 55 yaşında bir bayanim her çekim yaptığınız yerleri seyredıyom harika yerler görüyoruz sizin sayenizde teşekkürler turkıyeden sevgıler😀
Kanalımı izlediğiniz için çok teşekkür ederim, bu benim için çok şey ifade ediyor!
Umarım videolarım sizi mutlu eder!
Life is Free in Wales,.... Have a Nice Day :)
Thank you - I LOVE WALES!
Hey mate looks great there 💯😊
Yeah very peaceful!
just a point, very few of the shops have disable access for wheelchairs if you are thinking of going, just don't stay in the travel lodge, STEAM TRAIN RIDES ARE WONDERFUL THOUGH
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Different !
I went here in my childhood years & now i’m an adult i totally forgot what the place looks like etc 🤣
Given you’ve just released this one, my fingers are crossed you paid a visit up the road to port merion. Would love to see that one too 👍🏼
Saturday 3pm on the channel 👍👍❤️
Yes me to
They had delicious homemade ice cream 🍦
Oh yes!
Hi All This is my home town.... Taffy :)
You live in a lovely place then Taffy!
Did you record the whole town or just the bottom half ? Lived there a few years ago so occasionally get things like this suggested and was curious to what else you'd recorded
The rest is coming up later 👍👍❤️
I literally live here
Great place!
I went to Porthmadog last week for the first time.
I had no idea it's a 50 minute walk to the beach from the train station 😩
Crikey that’s a walk and half
Especially in this weather!
How come when I go out with my camera it’s grey and wet and you always get brilliant sunshine? Another great video enticing me to head off for Snowdonia right away!
I'm just lucky 🤣
By the way were you able to get across to Portmeirion whilst you’re up there? I suspect they may have tight restrictions on filming though!
@@Petecope Ooohhh watch this space - It comes out on Saturday on the youtube channel 👍🏻
I see the seagulls haven’t changed… the loudest birds ever very naughty… dive bombing the holiday makers 😮😮😮
OH yes!!
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Thanks Theo! Stay happy!
Hi is this near a haven site ? Thankyou
Im hoping to move to portmadog next year . Would really like to know what the welsh think about British folķ
Absolutely beautiful apart from the cytia ieir - hen houses. they have marred Porthmadog from the day they were built :(
Dont' know what they are
i live in craig madog and thats in tremadog and tremadog is in prothmadog :D
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Can you take dog into the park?
It bugs me when tourists visit London and think they've seen all of the UK...
palm trees in wales? i expected the destruction of traditional culture through masonic tavistock youth programming but don't start growing prickly pears and cholla over there.
🤣🤣 that’s cheered me right up!