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Port Penrhyn
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English
Proper noun
Port Penrhyn
en small port wcomm/Llandygai east of city/Bangor co/Gwynedd cc/Wales OS grid ref SH5972.
en 1945 May and June Charles E. Lee The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1 Railway Magazine 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
Normally spelt Porth Penrhyn within Wales. The spelling used here seems to be English-inspired.