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Clwydian Range and Dee Valley

The Clwydian Range and Dee Valley is a designated National Landscape located in north-east Wales, covering the Clwydian Range, and the valley of the River Dee.

Clwydian Range and Dee Valley
Clwydian Range and Dee Valley · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Clwydian Range and Dee Valley is a designated National Landscape located in north-east Wales, covering the Clwydian Range, and the valley of the River Dee.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Clwydian Range and Dee Valley

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Foel Fenlli

    Foel Fenlli or Moel Fenlli is a hill in Denbighshire, North Wales. With a summit at an elevation of 511 metres, it is the second highest peak of the Clwydian Range.

    1.7 km · hill (510.9m) in Denbighshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Moel Famau

    Moel Famau is the highest hill in the Clwydian Range and the highest point of the county of Flintshire in Wales. It lies on the boundary between Denbighshire and Flintshire.

    3.4 km · hill (554.8m) in Denbighshire · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bryn Alyn

    Bryn Alyn is a hill and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Denbighshire, North Wales, and forms part of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Bryn Alyn lies in the community of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, to the east of the River Alyn, with the valley of Dyffryn Alyn separating it from the main range of the Clwydian hills.

    1.9 km · hill (408.3m) in Denbighshire · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Moel Gyw

    Moel Gyw is a hill in Denbighshire, North Wales and forms part of the Clwydian Range. It is situated just to the south of Moel Famau and Foel Fenlli.

    2.6 km · hill (467m) in Denbighshire · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Garmon's Church

    St Garmon's Church is in the centre of the village of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, Wales. It is an active Anglican church in the diocese of St Asaph, the archdeaconry of St Asaph and the deanery of Dyffryn Clwyd.

    3.9 km · church in Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Berres' Church

    St Berres' Church, Llanferres, is in the village of Llanferres, Denbighshire, Wales on the A494 road between Mold and Ruthin. It is an Anglican church in the Bro Famau Group of Churches, the Mission Area of Mold, the archdeaconry of Wrexham and the diocese of St Asaph.

    1 km · church in Llanferres, Denbighshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Old St Peter's Church

    Old St Peter's Church a Grade II-listed ruin is situated above the B5429 in the village of Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd. It was first mentioned in the Lincoln Taxatio of 1291.

    3.6 km · ruined church in Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bwlch Penbarras

    Bwlch Penbarras is a mountain pass in the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in north-east Wales. The gap, which is at an altitude of 360 m, lies between the hills of Moel Famau and Foel Fenlli.

    1.9 km · Mountain pass in Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Graig, Llanarmon-yn-Ial

    Graig, Llanarmon-yn-Ial is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the preserved county of Clwyd, north Wales.

    3.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Clwydian Range and Dee Valley

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 67 km · Birmingham (BHX), 125 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Clwydian Range and Dee Valley
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £9–12
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Clwydian Range and Dee Valley
    115 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £13–18
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Clwydian Range and Dee Valley
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Clwydian Range and Dee Valley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Clwydian Range and Dee Valley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    238 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    299 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    302 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    335 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    358 km

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Around it

Next door to Clwydian Range and Dee Valley

Clwydian Range and Dee Valley is 32 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.