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Moel-y-don

Moel-y-don is a small hamlet in the community of Llanddaniel Fab, Anglesey, Wales, which is 126 miles (202.7 km) from Cardiff and 208.1 miles (334.9 km) from London.

Moel-y-don
Moel-y-don · Geoff Charles
The place

Moel-y-don is a small hamlet in the community of Llanddaniel Fab, Anglesey, Wales, which is 126 miles (202.7 km) from Cardiff and 208.1 miles (334.9 km) from London. It is located on the Menai Strait, opposite Y Felinheli.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Moel-y-don

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
    Britannia Bridge

    Britannia Bridge is a bridge in Wales that crosses the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the city of Bangor. It was originally designed and built by the noted railway engineer Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic.

    3.9 km · bridge over the Menai Strait · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Q2519821

    Bryn Celli Ddu is a prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey located near Llanddaniel Fab. Its name means 'the mound in the dark grove'.

    2.6 km · prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey; Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.6 km · church in Llanidan, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Plas Newydd

    Plas Newydd is a country house set in gardens, parkland and surrounding woodland on the north bank of the Menai Strait, in Llanddaniel Fab, near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales. The current building has its origins in 1470, and evolved over the centuries to become one of Anglesey's principal residences.

    1.8 km · house in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3 km · church in Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is a Church in Wales parish church in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey, Wales. It was built in 1853 to serve the village in the Diocese of Bangor and is a Grade II-listed building.

    3.8 km · church in Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Deiniol's Church

    St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, is a small 19th-century parish church in the centre of Llanddaniel Fab, a village in Anglesey, north Wales. The first church in this location is said to have been established by St Deiniol Fab in 616.

    3.5 km · church in Llanddaniel Fab, Anglesey, 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.

    1.6 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.

    400 m · church in Llanedwen, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Moel-y-don

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 92 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 103 km · Manchester (MAN), 130 km
Stations
Llanfairpwll railway station, 3.8 km · Port Dinorwic railway station, 900 m
  • Liverpool → Moel-y-don
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–14
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Moel-y-don
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £15–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Moel-y-don
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

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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 Moel-y-don. 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
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  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

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  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

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