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Porthaethwy Attractions
Listed below are attractions in Porthaethwy:
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Saint Tysilio, son of a king of Powys, came to Anglesey about 630 AD and founded his church on a small island in the Menai Strait. The present church was built in the early 15th Century and retains some original...
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The famous Menai Straits Bridge is an attraction in its own right. Thomas Telford’s chain bridge over the Menai Straits was completed in 1825 and quickly became an attraction for technically inclined tourists. The bridge comes into a life of...
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The Belgian Promenade forms part of a scenic walk beside the Menai Strait from the Menai Bridge to Church Island. It was built during the First World War by refugees from Mechelen in Belgium. The residents of Porthaethwy provided them...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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