Nantmor Explained

Country:Wales
Official Name:Nantmor
Coordinates:52.993°N -4.08°W
Static Image Name:Chapel and red Phone Box at Nantmor - geograph.org.uk - 62784.jpg
Static Image Caption:The chapel at Nantmor
Community Wales:Beddgelert
Unitary Wales:Gwynedd
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Constituency Westminster:Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Post Town:CAERNARFON
Postcode District:LL55
Postcode Area:LL
Dial Code:01766
Os Grid Reference:SH604460

Nantmor is a hamlet which lies about 1½ miles to the south of the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales.

The current spelling of the name Nantmor is more modernmost old documents[1] from the 16th to the 18th century record the name as Nanmor.

It lies close to the scenic Aberglaslyn Pass and the Welsh Highland Railway. Nantmor station has re-opened, following a 2007 vote in its favour by local residents.

A car park run by the National Trust is a popular starting point for walks up to Cwm Bychan or along the Afon Glaslyn.

The village is the home of Dafydd Nanmor, a renowned 15th century bard (died c. 1490) who took his name from the hamlet, as did Rhys Nanmor after him. Dafydd Nanmor himself was possibly a bardic student of Rhys Goch, who lived at neighbouring Hafod Garegog.

Filmed in Nantmor in 1957, the Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 British 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.

Carneddi, a nearby hill farm, was the home of Ruth Janette Ruck, who published a trilogy of books about her experiences in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, namely Place of Stones, Hill Farm Story and Along Came a Llama. In 1980 she featured in the HTV About Britain series in an episode called "The Lady and the Llama", which featured a year on the farm.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Melville Richards Archive Place-Name Database - Agreement. www.e-gymraeg.co.uk.
  2. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | The LADY AND THE LLAMA (1980). 19 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120419163808/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/258637?view=synopsis . 19 April 2012 .