Gadfa
Gadfa is a hamlet in the community of Llaneilian, Anglesey, Wales.
Gadfa is a hamlet in the community of Llaneilian, Anglesey, Wales. It is close to the town of Amlwch.
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Worth seeing in and around Gadfa
10 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.
- 01Parys Mountain
Parys Mountain is located south of the town of Amlwch in north east Anglesey, Wales. Originally known as Trysclwyn, the high ground is reputed to have gained its current name when it was given to Robert Parys, Chamberlain of North Wales by Henry IV. It is the site of a large copper mine that was extensively exploited in the late 18th century.
1.9 km · hill (147m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia - 02St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo
St Gwenllwyfo's Church is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Dulas, in Anglesey, Wales. It was built between 1854 and 1856 to replace an earlier church in the parish, also dedicated to St Gwenllwyfo, which needed repair and had become too small for its congregation.
1.7 km · church in Anglesey, UK · Wikipedia - 03Parys Mountain Windmill
Parys Mountain Windmill is a Grade II listed building located on the highest point of Parys Mountain near Amlwch, Anglesey, Wales. The structure was built in 1878 to assist a local copper mine in the removal of water from mine shafts.
1.9 km · Grade II listed building in Anglesey · Wikipedia - 04Mynydd Eilian
Mynydd Eilian, sometimes also referred as Mynydd Llaneilian, is a hill in Anglesey, Wales.
2.2 km · hill (177m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia - 05Amlwch Lighthouse
The Amlwch Lighthouse is a lighthouse tower situated on the outer pier of Amlwch, at the northeast tip of Anglesey, Wales. The existing lighthouse, a square tower erected in 1853, is the fourth on this site.
3.8 km · lighthouse at Amlwch, in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia - 06Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride
Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride is a Roman Catholic church in Amlwch, a town on the island of Anglesey, north Wales. It was built in the 1930s to a design by an Italian architect, Giuseppe Rinvolucri, using reinforced concrete.
4 km · Roman Catholic church in Amlwch, in Anglesey, north-west Wales, and Grade II* listed church building · Wikipedia - 07Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo
The Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo is a medieval ruined church near Dulas, in Anglesey, Wales, perhaps built in the 15th century to replace another church from which only the 12th-century font survived. Dedicated to Gwenllwyfo, a 7th-century female saint about whom nothing else is known, it was used as a chapel of ease for the church in Amlwch, about 5 miles away.
2.5 km · church in Anglesey, UK · Wikipedia - 08St Eleth's Church
St Eleth's Church, Amlwch is a parish church built in the Neo-classical style in 1800 in Amlwch, a town on the island of Anglesey in north Wales. It stands on the site of earlier buildings, with the first church here said to have been established by St Elaeth in the 6th century.
3.6 km · parish church in the Neo-classical style in Amlwch, in Anglesey in north Wales · Wikipedia - 09The Kings Head Hotel
The King's Head, Amlwch is a public house situated in Salem Street, one of the main streets in Amlwch, Anglesey, Wales. The pub name is one of many King's Heads found all over the United Kingdom.
3.4 km · public house in Amlwch, Wales · Wikipedia - 10Melin Adda
Melin Adda is a windmill near Amlwch, Anglesey, which was built in the 1790s and closed down in 1912. The mill was turned into a house in the 1970s.
3.1 km · Grade II listed building in Anglesey. Set back from the N side of Ffordd Tanybryn, c200m due east of Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones in Pentrefelin. · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gadfa
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 80 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 97 km · Dublin (DUB), 129 km
- Stations
- Amlwch railway station, 3.5 km
- Castletown → Gadfa81 km · quickest by road, 8h 28m · $211–343
- Liverpool → Gadfa89 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £13–17
- Dublin → Gadfa128 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 38m · €57–126
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gadfa
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 Gadfa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHolyhead's status as an international ferry terminal means it is served by direct trains to Chester and London.
- Get inNational Express and Arriva from across the UK to Holyhead Ferry port at Holyhead with a regular service from Dublin and Dun Laoghaire
- Get aroundThe A55 cuts straight across the island parallel to the old A5 route, providing a quick route to Holyhead ferry port.
- Get aroundFairly easy 130-mile (200-km) walking trail around this island off the northwest corner of Wales, with diverse coastal scenery which is 95% within the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and 20 attractive villages en route.
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Next door to Gadfa
- Amlwchtown and community in Anglesey, Wales3.6 km
- Rhosybolvillage and community in Anglesey, Wales, UK3.8 km
- Llaneilianvillage and community in Anglesey, north-west Wales1.3 km
- Penysarnvillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK400 m
- Brynrefailvillage in Anglesey, Wales3.6 km
- Pengorffwysfavillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.2 km