Waunfawr

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Waunfawr

Waunfawr is a large village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
on the outskirts of the Snowdonia National Park, Gwynedd

Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a Administrative divisions of Wales in north-west Wales, named after the old Kingdom of Gwynedd. Although one of the biggest in terms of geographical area, it is also one of the most sparsely populated....
, in North Wales

Wales

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.

Waunfawr railway station

Waunfawr railway station

Waunfawr is a station on the narrow gauge railway Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate to Dinas railway station on the LNWR....
on the Welsh Highland Railway

Welsh Highland Railway

The Welsh Highland Railway is a narrow gauge railway in Wales, which originally ran from Dinas, Gwynedd near Caernarfon to Porthmadog, with a branch line to Bryngwyn Station and the Slate industry in Wales at Moel Tryfan....
adjoins the at the southern end of the village.

The local community enterprise charity, , among its many local initiatives, operates the Bryn Pistyll Site at Waunfawr as a popular attraction for local people and tourists.

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Waunfawr is a large village

Village

Gwynedd

Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
.

Waunfawr railway station

Waunfawr railway station

Welsh Highland Railway

Marconi Company

The Marconi Company Ltd. was founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company . It was renamed Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company in 1900 and The Marconi Company in 1963....
built a large high-powered Long Wave

Longwave

The longwave radio band is a range of frequencies used for AM broadcasting, which extends from 148.5 to 283.5 kHz. It falls within the low frequency part of the radio spectrum ....
Wireless Telegraph

Wireless

Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short or long ....
transmitting station near the village in 1914 which worked in association with its receiving station at Tywyn

Tywyn

Tywyn is a town and seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast of southern Gwynedd , in north Wales. The name derives from the Welsh tywyn and the town is sometimes referred to as Tywyn Meirionnydd....
. The station initiated commercial transatlantic wireless service from London

London

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to New York

New York

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in 1920. It replaced Marconi's transatlantic wireless service from Clifden

Clifden

Clifden is a town on the coast of County Galway, Republic of Ireland and being Connemara's largest town, it is often referred to as "the Capital of Connemara"....
, Ireland

Ireland

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to Canada

Canada

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, after the Clifden station was destroyed in the Irish Civil War

Irish Civil War

The Irish Civil War was a conflict that accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State as an entity independence from the United Kingdom within the British Empire....
in 1922. The building is now used as a climbing centre.

There are many recreational facilities available in Waunfawr, from playing snooker

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions....
to playing football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
on the all-weather pitch. There is also a youth club and a junior football club.

The village name is occasionally, and erroneously, spelt "Waenfawr" which in 1994 changed its name from "Waenfawr" to "Waunfawr".

External links

Books

Marconi and his wireless stations in Wales (Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst 1999 ISBN 0-86381-536-7 Hari Williams)