Attractions in Porthaethwy - Anglesey & North Wales

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Aber Falls (Approx 2 Miles)

Located at the head of a pretty, steep-sided valley, the spectacular 100 foot Aber Falls can only be approached on foot. The river rises high in the Carneddau mountains, and is claimed to be one of the steepest from source...

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Bangor Cathedral (Approx 2 Miles)

Bangor diocese was founded in the 6th Century when Deiniol and his followers established a monastic community at Bangor. Deiniol was consecrated Bishop and the church became a cathedral. The present building, dating from the 13th Century, was restored in...

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Britannia Bridge (Approx 2 Miles)

West of Menai Bridge is Robert Stephenson`s railway bridge built in the mid 19th Century when railways arrived in north Wales. The Britannia Bridge was part of the railway line linking Chester with Holyhead, the Irish Mail terminus. The bridge...

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Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery (Approx 3 Miles)

This is Gwynedd’s only general museum. The collection has an exciting archaeological collection including a rare Roman sword, flints from the Neolithic axe factory at Graig Lwyd and decorated Medieval tiles from Llanfaes. There is also a large collection...

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Llys Rhosyr (Approx 2 Miles)

The archaeological site of Llys Rhosyr is easily missed by motorists on their way to Llandwyn Island. It is located at a bend in the road, just past the church. Here, archaeologists have uncovered the foundations of a medieval court...

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Newborough Warren Nature Reserve (< 1 Mile)

In the fourteenth Century violent storms buried much of the coastline under sand dunes. The area now forms part of the National Nature Reserve and gets its name from the huge number of rabbits that colonised the dunes until the...

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Pilots’ Cottages (Approx 2 Miles)

In the nineteenth Century Llanddwyn Island became an important point of navigation for ships carrying slate out of Bangor and through the Menai Strait. These cottages were built to house the pilots who guided the ships. Two of the cottages...

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Saint Dwynwen’s Church (< 1 Mile)

Now a ruin, this once substantial sixteenth Century chapel was built on the site of an earlier shrine to Dwynwen, patron saint of lovers. In Tudor times pilgrims came to Llanddwyn Island to leave offerings on her shrine and to...

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St Mary’s Church (< 1 Mile)

St Mary’s Church is located in the village with the longest place name in Britain -Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Translated to English the name means - "The church of St. Mary in a hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and near...

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Treborth Botanic Garden (< 1 Mile)

The Chester and Holyhead Railway developed the original site here in the mid 1840s. The gardens were laid out by Sir Joseph Paxton, the same man who designed the Crystal Palace in London. The University of Wales bought...

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