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Port Penrhyn

Port Penrhyn proper noun: a small port in Llandygai community, east of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5972).

Proper noun

Port Penrhyn

  1. A small port in Llandygai community, east of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5972).
    • The somewhat meagre records available appear strongly to indicate that, of the many narrow-gauge railways in the district, the earliest is that running from Port Penrhyn, on the Menai Strait, a little to the east of the town of Bangor, to the enormous slate quarries owned by Lord Penrhyn on the...1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138

Questions about Port Penrhyn

What does Port Penrhyn mean?
Port Penrhyn means a small port in Llandygai community, east of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5972).
What part of speech is Port Penrhyn?
Port Penrhyn is a proper noun.

Words near Port Penrhyn in the dictionary

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  2. Port Orchard
  3. Port Orford
  4. Port Orford cedar
  5. Port Orford cedars
  6. Port Penrhyn
  7. Port Pirie
  8. Port Poyohon
  9. Port Providence
  10. Port Quin
  11. Port Radium

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