Garndolbenmaen

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{{Infobox UK place

| country = Wales

| official_name = Garndolbenmaen

| welsh_name =

| coordinates = {{coord|52.973|-4.238|display=inline,title}}

| static_image_name = Garndolbenmaen village centre - geograph.org.uk - 119783.jpg

| static_image_caption = Garndolbenmaen village centre

| population = 365

| population_ref = (2011)

| community_wales = Dolbenmaen

| unitary_wales = Gwynedd

| lieutenancy_wales =

| constituency_welsh_assembly = Dwyfor Meirionnydd

| constituency_westminster = Dwyfor Meirionnydd

| post_town = GARNDOLBENMAEN

| postcode_district = LL51

| postcode_area = LL

| dial_code = 01766

| os_grid_reference = SH497441

| cardiff_distance =

}}

Garndolbenmaen (nicknamed Garn) is a village in the county of Gwynedd, Wales. It lies near the A487, approximately {{convert|6|mi|0}} north west of Porthmadog, in the community of Dolbenmaen, which has a population of 1,300.{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790560 |title=Office for National Statistics : Neighbourhood statistics : Census 2001 : Gwynedd |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922091920/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790560 |archive-date=22 September 2010 |url-status=dead }} The closest villages are Dolbenmaen and Bryncir. The Papur Bro, the local Welsh language paper, is called Y Ffynnon (The Source/Spring).

The village itself has a population of around 300.{{NOMIS2011|id=W00000337|title=Garndolbenmaen population|access-date=9 July 2021}}

In 1856-7 Evan Jones of Garndolbenmaen built the Ynys-y-Pandy Mill on the nearby Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway.{{cite web |url= http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/40572/details/YNYS-Y-PANDY+SLATE+MILL,+CWMYSTRADLLYN/|title= YNYS-Y-PANDY SLATE MILL, CWMYSTRADLLYN;YNYSYPANDY;PONT-Y-PANDY|author= |date= December 2011|website= Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales|publisher= The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales|access-date=24 June 2020}}

Approximately 50 pupils attend Ysgol Gynradd Garndolbenmaen,{{cite web |year=2004 |title=School Inspection Report |url=http://www.estyn.gov.uk/inspection_reports/Garndolbenmaen_prim.pdf |publisher=ESTYN}} many pupils travel from nearby villages including Pant Glas, Bryncir, Cwm Pennant and Golan. The number of pupils attending the school has remained consistent over the past 20 years.

Many of the old cottages in Garndolbenmaen have been turned into holiday homes.

Blaen y Cae recording studios are located in the village, where Pep Le Pew's album, Un tro yn y Gorllewin and the last album by Gwyneth Glyn, Wyneb Dros Dro, were recorded.

The magazine Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review is published in Garndolbenmaen