Glan-y-wern
Glan-y-wern is a hamlet in the community of Borth, Ceredigion, Wales, which is 78.2 miles (125.9 km) from Cardiff and 179.6 miles (289 km) from London.
Glan-y-wern is a hamlet in the community of Borth, Ceredigion, Wales, which is 78.2 miles (125.9 km) from Cardiff and 179.6 miles (289 km) from London. Glan-y-wern is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones and is part of the Ceredigion Preseli constituency in the House of Commons.
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Worth seeing in and around Glan-y-wern
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.
- 01Borth 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..
700 m · British Zoo · Wikipedia - 02Castell 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.
2.1 km · castle in Ceredigion, Wales, UK · Wikipedia - 03Wallog
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.
3.4 km · beach · Wikipedia - 04
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Getting to Glan-y-wern
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 124 km · Cardiff (CWL), 130 km · Bristol (BRS), 152 km
- Stations
- Borth railway station, 1.4 km
- Liverpool → Glan-y-wern55 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–9
- Cardiff → Glan-y-wern141 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · £18–24
- Bristol → Glan-y-wern164 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Glan-y-wern
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 Glan-y-wern. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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- Dôl-y-bontvillage in Ceredigion, Wales, UK1.2 km
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