Ffestiniog

For all intents and purposes, Wills and Kate were already living as man and wife in a three-bedroom stone farmhouse just outside the Welsh town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, not far from RAF Valley air base.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

Tom Bodden: 'I'm off to Blaenau - that's Gwent, not Ffestiniog'

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

You won't like this: The Ffestiniog Railway Company, which operates this and the original Ffestiniog railway, is run almost entirely by volunteers with the help of some decent but modest grants by the Lottery Fund, Welsh Tourist Board and EEC, amounting to a couple of million pounds over the last 15 years.

In praise of … the Welsh Highland railway 2011

For all intents and purposes, Wills and Kate were already living as man and wife in a three-bedroom stone farmhouse just outside the Welsh town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, not far from RAF Valley air base.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

Tom Bodden: 'I'm off to Blaenau - that's Gwent, not Ffestiniog'

The week that was 2009

It took time for the national park authorities to be won round and for the neighbouring Ffestiniog railway to be persuaded to accept a competitor.

In praise of … the Welsh Highland railway 2011

He wasa born in Trawsfynydd and went to school in Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

Recently I had the pleasant opportunity to visit Parc Menai for an official opening - and also to inaugurate road improvements near Blaenau Ffestiniog and in Parc Cybi near Holyhead.

It's time to act 2008

Today [yesterday] the Deputy First Minister has been to Blaenau Ffestiniog to open the latest improvements to the A470 - some two miles of road improved at a cost of £16. 5m.

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

This old work road at one time was a main line of communication between the Ffestiniog villages and those clustered around Traeth Mawr.

Country diary 2010