Anglesey & the North Coast
Majestic Caernarfon Castle was built by Edward I between 1283 and 1330 as a military stronghold, seat of government and royal palace. Designed and mainly…
Must-see attractions in Anglesey & the North Coast
Anglesey & the North Coast
Caernarfon is more complete, Harlech more dramatically positioned and Beaumaris more technically perfect, yet out of the four castles that compose the…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Laid out in 1875 and painstakingly landscaped over 150 years, Bodnant is one of Wales’ most beautiful gardens. Lord Aberconway of the McLaren family …
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Funded by the vast profits from the slate mine of Caribbean sugar-plantation owner and anti-abolitionist Baron Penrhyn, and extended and embellished by…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
On the west side of the vast Bodnant Estate, a collection of lavishly restored 18th-century farm buildings now operates as Bodnant Welsh Food. One of the…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
The title 'Storiel', a portmanteau of the Welsh words for 'story' and 'gallery', signals the combined historical and artistic focus of this well-curated…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Completed in 1585 for merchant and courtier Robert Wynn, Plas Mawr is one of Britain's finest surviving Elizabethan town houses. The tall, whitewashed…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Founded in 1881, given the royal imprimatur by Queen Victoria in 1882, and still going strong, the Cambrian runs a full calendar of exhibitions by its…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Christmas for twitchers, this Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) sanctuary on the lovely Conwy estuary is home to lapwings, sedge warblers,…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
The survival of most of its 1300m-long town wall, built concurrently with the castle, makes Conwy one of the UK’s prime medieval sites. The wall was…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
More formally known as the Cathedral Church of St Deiniol, this building occupies one of the oldest ecclesiastical sites in Britain, dating from AD 525,…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Just east of the town centre, these low stone foundations represent the westernmost legionary fort of the Roman Empire. The fort dates back to AD 77, when…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Given the large expanse of tidal mudflats here (a paradise for wading birds), it's surprising that the Victorians chose this site to build Britain's ninth…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Strewn with rare plants, follies, sculptures and fountains, these historic gardens once formed part of the estate of the Lords Newborough. While the grand…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Timber-and-plaster Aberconwy House is the town's oldest, built as one of 20 merchants' houses when the town was fortified around 1300. Over the years it…
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National Beekeeping Centre Wales
Anglesey & the North Coast
This nonprofit organisation is dedicated to encouraging people to take up beekeeping. Its corner of the Bodnant Welsh Food complex has interesting…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Dolphins and porpoises can sometimes be spotted from this long, sandy, rock-fringed Blue Flag beach, 6 miles southwest of Caernarfon. The flatness of the…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Built in 1307 at the same time that the castle was going up, this pretty Gothic church once ministered to the castle's garrison. Built directly into the…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
Conwy's High St heads through this gate in the medieval wall to the quayside. Its twin towers and portcullis allowed it to command access from the town to…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
The twin-towered Mill Gate, one of two gatehouses in the southern stretch of Conwy's town wall, was built to allow access to the royal watermill, outside…
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Smallest House in Great Britain
Anglesey & the North Coast
The Smallest House in Great Britain is a curiosity with dimensions of 72 in by 122 in and a mention in the Guinness Book of Records. On the quayside, its…
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Anglesey & the North Coast
The entrance to the largest section of town wall starts from the station and heads up to the Upper Gate (where there are great views over the town to the…
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