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Llanfair-is-gaer

Llanfair-is-gaer was an ecclesiastical parish in Caernarfon, Gwynedd: the parish church was St Mary's.

Llanfair-is-gaer
Llanfair-is-gaer · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Llanfair-is-gaer was an ecclesiastical parish in Caernarfon, Gwynedd: the parish church was St Mary's.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanfair-is-gaer

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
    Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan

    The Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan is a medieval church in the community of Llanidan, in Anglesey, North Wales, close to the Menai Strait. The first church on the site was established in the 7th century by St Nidan, the confessor of the monastery at Penmon, Anglesey, but the oldest parts of the present structure, now closed and partly ruined, date from the 14th century.

    1.1 km · church in Llanidan, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Q5049667

    Castell Bryn Gwyn, officially spelled Castell Bryngwyn, is a prehistoric site on the Isle of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. It is a circular clay and gravel bank covered with grass, still some 1.5 metres high and revetted externally by stone walls, which surround a level area some 54 metres in diameter.

    3.8 km · Welsh prehistoric site · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Nidan's Church, Llanidan

    St Nidan's Church, Llanidan is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Brynsiencyn, in Anglesey, north Wales. Built between 1839 and 1843, it replaced the Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan, which needed significant repair, providing a place of Anglican worship nearer to the village than the old church.

    1.9 km · church in Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Black Boy Inn

    The Black Boy Inn is a hotel and public house in the Royal Town of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales which is thought to date back to 1522, making it one of the oldest surviving inns in North Wales. It is within the medieval walls of Caernarfon, a few hundred yards from Caernarfon Castle.

    3.9 km · hotel and public house in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Anglesey Sea Zoo

    The Anglesey Sea Zoo is an aquarium and independent research and marine education centre on the south coast of Anglesey island in North Wales. Located just outside the village of Brynsiencyn, Anglesey Sea Zoo claims to be the largest aquarium in Wales and displays over 150 native species.

    2.5 km · British aquarium and marine research centre · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Q5016872

    Caer Lêb is a Roman and mediaeval site on the Welsh island of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. Its name means "Leaven Castle".

    3.2 km · archaeological site in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Caernarfon Criminal Justice Centre

    The Caernarfon Criminal Justice Centre is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, in Llanberis Road, Caernarfon, Wales.

    3.6 km · judicial building in Caernarfon, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    GreenWood

    GreenWood Family Park, formerly GreenWood Forest Park and The GreenWood Centre, is a family fun park at Y Felinheli in Gwynedd, Wales. The park was opened by Stephen and Andrea Bristow in 1993 and attracts around 150,000 visitors a year.

    3.4 km · family fun park · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen

    St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen, is a 19th-century parish church near the Menai Strait, in Anglesey, north Wales. The first church was founded here by St.

    2.8 km · church in Llanedwen, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Llanfair-is-gaer

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 94 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 105 km · Manchester (MAN), 132 km
Stations
Caernarvon railway station, 3.4 km · Port Dinorwic railway station, 3.1 km · Pont Rug (Halt) railway station, 3.1 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Llanfair-is-gaer

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 Llanfair-is-gaer. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inis a request stop on the main line between Holyhead, where ferries from Ireland berth, and Bangor, just across the Menai Strait on the Welsh mainland.

From Wikivoyage: Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-01.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    223 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    274 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    309 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    328 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    342 km

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