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]