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Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy

Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy is a village in Anglesey, in north-west Wales.

Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy
Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy · Atm1927
The place

Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy is a village in Anglesey, in north-west Wales. A sparsely populated parish, it contains two well known geographical features; Carmel Head and, offshore, The Skerries islands with their lighthouse.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy

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
    Mynydd y Garn

    Mynydd y Garn is a hill in the northwest of the Isle of Anglesey in north Wales. Its 170 m high summit is crowned by a trig point and a stone obelisk.

    3.5 km · hill (170m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cemlyn Bay and lagoon

    Cemlyn Bay is a bay on the northwest coast of Anglesey, North Wales, approximately 2.5 km west of Wylfa nuclear power station, within the community of Cylch-y-Garn. Separated from the bay by a shingle beach is a brackish lagoon, which is fed by a number of small streams.

    3.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy is a medieval parish church in the north-west of Anglesey, north Wales. The date of foundation of the church, which is in the village of Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, is unknown, but the oldest parts date from the 11th or 12th century.

    2.4 km · church in Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Carreglwyd

    Carreglwyd is a Georgian country house, on the northwest of the Isle of Anglesey, about 1 km NW of Llanfaethlu in Wales, at grid reference SH309878. "Carreglwyd" is Welsh for "grey rock", with lwyd being the soft mutation of llwyd.

    3.6 km · building in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Rhwydrys's Church

    St Rhwydrys's Church is a medieval church near the village of Cemlyn on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The building dates from the mid-12th century and underwent renovations in the 19th century.

    2.6 km · church in Llanrhwydrys, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Glegir Mawr

    Clegir Mawr is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the community of Cylch-y-Garn in the north-west of the island of Anglesey, Wales. It is a stony coastal headland with an area just under 10 hectares and has been designated principally because of the occurrence of the spotted rock-rose which is a nationally rare plant and also the county flower of Anglesey.

    1.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Henborth

    Henborth is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Anglesey, North Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since October 1989 in an attempt to protect its fragile geological elements.

    2.4 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 77 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 113 km · Dublin (DUB), 113 km
  • Castletown → Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy
    77 km · quickest by road, 9h 38m · $32–45
  • Liverpool → Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £14–19
  • Dublin → Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy
    115 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 6m · €41–103
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIrish Ferries and Stena Line sail several times a day from Dublin, taking 3 hr 30 min.
  • Get inFerries no longer sail from Dún Laoghaire, as Dublin harbour has been upgraded, with a motorway link to bypass the city traffic.

From Wikivoyage: Holyhead, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    246 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    246 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    281 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    298 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    346 km

If you know how people move in Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy

  • Cylch-y-Garncommunity in Anglesey, Wales, UK1.7 km
  • Llanrhuddladvillage in Anglesey, Wales3.5 km
  • Rhydwynvillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.8 km
  • Cemlynvillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK3 km
  • Bodwynvillage in Anglesey, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Church Bayvillage in Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom2.3 km