Afon Mawddach
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Afon Mawddach is a river in Gwynedd, Wales, which has its source in a wide area north of Dduallt in Snowdonia. Below Dolgellau it enters a wide estuary.
The Mawddach Estuary from above Barmouth
Gold panning in the Mawddach, in Coed-y-Brenin
The Mawddach north of Dolgellau, looking west to Barmouth Bay
View of the estuary from the Mawddach Trail west of Penmaenpool, looking west
Barmouth
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Barmouth is a seaside town and community in the county of Gwynedd, north-west Wales; it lies on the estuary of the Afon Mawddach and Cardigan Bay. Located in the historic county of Merionethshire, the
Afon Mawddach
…the south and Diffwys (750 m) in the north. The head of the estuary is marked by the confluence of the Mawddach and Wnion. At its mouth is the town of Barmouth with its railway bridge. The Mawddach estuary was formed from a glaciated valley which was flooded by the sea during the Holocene glacial retreat to…
Barmouth on the Mawddach estuary
Barmouth, with Cadair Idris in the background, 1865
The town in the 1890s
View of Barmouth from the hills, 1965