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Kinmel Bay and Towyn

Kinmel Bay and Towyn is a community, with town status, in Conwy County Borough, in Wales.

The place

Kinmel Bay and Towyn is a community, with town status, in Conwy County Borough, in Wales. It is located on the coast bordering Denbighshire, from which it is separated by the River Clwyd, and is 2.6 miles (4.2 km) west of Rhyl, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north east of Abergele and 14.1 miles (22.7 km) east of Conwy. The community includes the holiday resorts of Kinmel Bay and Towyn. It is crossed by the River Gele, which flows from west to east, before joining the River Clwyd on the eastern boundary.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kinmel Bay and Towyn

7 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
    Rhyl railway station

    Rhyl railway station is on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line and serves the holiday resort of Rhyl, Wales.

    3.8 km · Grade II listed building in Denbighshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rhyl Town Hall

    Rhyl Town Hall is a municipal structure in Wellington Road in Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Rhyl Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.8 km · Grade II listed building in Rhyl · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pont y Ddraig

    Pont y Ddraig or Dragon's Bridge is a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists across the Foryd Estuary of the River Clwyd next to Rhyl harbour in Wales. The bridge was opened in October 2013 by Mark Colbourne, gold and silver medalist at the London Paralympics.

    2.6 km · bridge · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Traeth Pensarn

    This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the Conwy Area of Search.

    3.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Rhyl

    Our Lady of the Assumption Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Rhyl, Denbighshire. It was founded in 1851 by the Society of Jesus and was rebuilt in 1973.

    3.4 km · church in Denbighshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ocean Beach

    Ocean Beach was an amusement park in Rhyl, North Wales which operated from 1954 until 2 September 2007.

    2.7 km · amusement park in Rhyl · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rhyl Miniature Railway

    The Rhyl Miniature Railway is a 15 in gauge miniature railway line located in Rhyl on the North Wales Coast. The line runs in a circle around a boating lake near the promenade, to the west of the town centre.

    2.8 km · miniature railway museum in Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kinmel Bay and Towyn

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 46 km · Manchester (MAN), 84 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 112 km
Stations
Abergele and Pensarn railway station, 3 km · Foryd railway station, 900 m
  • Liverpool → Kinmel Bay and Towyn
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £6–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kinmel Bay and Towyn
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–14
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Kinmel Bay and Towyn
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kinmel Bay and Towyn

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 Kinmel Bay and Towyn. 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

    248 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    273 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    309 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    328 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    331 km

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Around it

Next door to Kinmel Bay and Towyn

Kinmel Bay and Towyn is 36 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.