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Llanfair-y-Cwmwd

Llanfair-y-Cwmwd is a village and former parish in the community of Rhosyr, Anglesey, Wales.

Llanfair-y-Cwmwd
Llanfair-y-Cwmwd · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Llanfair-y-Cwmwd is a village and former parish in the community of Rhosyr, Anglesey, Wales. The church is dedicated to St Mary.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanfair-y-Cwmwd

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
    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.

    1.8 km · Welsh prehistoric site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.3 km · British aquarium and marine research centre · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Q5016872

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

    2.7 km · archaeological site in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Llys Rhosyr

    Llys Rhosyr, also known as "Cae Llys", is an archaeological site near Newborough in Anglesey; the ruins of a pre-Edwardian commotal court.

    3.1 km · archaeological site in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd is a small medieval parish church near the village of Dwyran, in Anglesey, north Wales. The building probably dates from the 15th century, with some alterations.

    0 m · church in Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Ceinwen's Church

    St Ceinwen's Church, Llangeinwen, is a Grade II* listed building in Anglesey, north Wales. It is 1.5 kilometres from the neighbouring St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd.

    1.2 km · church in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Newborough Warren

    Newborough Warren near the village of Newborough in Anglesey, Wales, is a large dune and beach system of 2,269 hectares, approximately half of which is a conifer plantation. The whole area is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and all of the site, except the forest, is a national nature reserve.

    3.3 km · Dune and beach system in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Peter's Church

    St Peter's Church is a medieval church situated on the western side of the village of Newborough, Anglesey, Wales. The building dates from the early 14th century and underwent restorations in the 19th century.

    3 km · church in Newborough, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Caffo's Church

    St Caffo's Church, Llangaffo is a 19th-century church, in the south of Anglesey, north Wales, about 5 miles from the county town, Llangefni. It was constructed in 1846 to replace the previous medieval church in the village of Llangaffo.

    1.8 km · church in Llangaffo, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Llanfair-y-Cwmwd

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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-y-Cwmwd. 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

    272 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    307 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    326 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    345 km

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Around it

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  • Llangaffovillage in Anglesey, Wales1.8 km