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Castles · North Wales

Dinas Emrys

In or near Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Dinas Emrys — Iron Age hillfort and castle probably erected by Prince Llewelyn II to guard the road to the mountain pass of Snowdon.

Dinas Emrys

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Dinas Emrys is a castle in north. (Iron Age hillfort in Gwynedd, Wales.) Wikipedia notes: "Dinas Emrys is a rocky and wooded hillock near Beddgelert in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. Rising some 76 m (250 ft) above the floor of the Glaslyn river valley, it overlooks the southern end of Llyn Dinas in Snowdonia.". Coordinates 53.0220°, -4.0790°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.

Coordinates
53.0220, -4.0790

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