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Dôl-y-bont

Dol-y-bont is a village in Ceredigion, Wales; It lies near Borth, to the north of Llandre.

The place

Dol-y-bont is a village in Ceredigion, Wales; It lies near Borth, to the north of Llandre. Dôl is Welsh for "meadow", Pont is Welsh for "bridge".

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dôl-y-bont

4 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
    Borth Wild Animal Kingdom

    Borth Animalarium, formerly known as Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, is a zoo, located in the seaside Welsh town of Borth, 7 miles north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Mid Wales. It occupies 12 acres and in 2015 had some 27,000 visitors..

    1.8 km · British Zoo · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castell Gwallter

    Castell Gwallter, also known as Walter's Castle and sometimes Castell Penweddig, is the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle situated on a large hill above the old village of Llandre in northern Ceredigion, Wales, four miles northeast of Aberystwyth.

    1.3 km · castle in Ceredigion, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wallog

    Wallog is a beach on the coast of Cardigan Bay north of Aberystwyth between Clarach Bay and Borth in the county of Ceredigion, Mid-Wales. A shingle spit named Sarn Gynfelyn originates from here.

    3.7 km · beach · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cae Ty-hen

    Talybont may refer to:

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

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Getting to Dôl-y-bont

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 124 km · Cardiff (CWL), 129 km · Bristol (BRS), 151 km
Stations
Borth railway station, 2.5 km · Bow Street railway station, 3.7 km
  • Liverpool → Dôl-y-bont
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £9–12
  • Cardiff → Dôl-y-bont
    125 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £15–20
  • Bristol → Dôl-y-bont
    116 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dôl-y-bont

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 Dôl-y-bont. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTo Holyhead there are ferries from Dublin and Dún Laoghaire; and to Fishguard from Rosslare.
  • Go nextPennine Way walk running the spine of England from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders Coast To Coast Walk a 190-mile long-distance walking trail in England which crosses the North of England from St Bees in Cumbria on the West coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire on the East coast.

From Wikivoyage: Wales Coast Path, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    151 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    273 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    353 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    388 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    390 km

If you know how people move in Dôl-y-bont – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Dôl-y-bont

  • Borthvillage and community in Ceredigion, Wales, UK2.1 km
  • Tirymynachcommunity in Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Ceulanamaesmawrcommunity in Ceredigion, Wales, UK3.1 km
  • Bow Streetvillage in Ceredigion, Wales3.4 km
  • Tal-y-bontvillage in Ceredigion, Wales3.3 km
  • Llandrevillage in Ceredigion, Wales, UK1.1 km