All about... TAL Y FAN.Byline: Picture: RICHARD WILLIAMS Photographed from Pentre Tafarn y Fedw, a tiny village just outside Llanrwst, Tal y Fan Tal y Fan is an outlying peak of the Carneddau mountains in North Wales. It is 610 m high, and lies mid-way between the Conwy valley to the east and Penmaenmawr on the coast to the north-west. is part of the Snowdonia mountain range and stands at 2,000ft. l It looks down over Conwy and out to the Irish Sea and and the Isle of Man Noun 1. Isle of Man - one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea Man British Isles - Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic to the north, Anglesey and Puffin Island to the north west, and on a clear day to the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland to the east. l For centuries Tal y Fan was a busy community built around the Roman road to Anglesey but villagers moved out following land enclosure in the 1800sTo order your copy of this picture, fill in the form on page 4 |
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