Port Penrhyn
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- A small port in Llandygai community, east of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH5972).
- 1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
- 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 north side of the Bronllwyd, […] .
Usage notes[edit]
Normally spelt Porth Penrhyn within Wales. The spelling used here seems to be English-inspired.