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Penmynydd

Penmynydd, meaning "top of the mountain" in Welsh, is a village on Anglesey, Wales, and the main village in the community of Penmynydd and Star.

Penmynydd
Penmynydd · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Penmynydd, meaning "top of the mountain" in Welsh, is a village on Anglesey, Wales, and the main village in the community of Penmynydd and Star. It is known for being the birthplace of the Tudors of Penmynydd, which became the House of Tudor.

The population of the community according to the United Kingdom Census 2011 was 465. The community also includes the village of Star and the hamlet of Castellior.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Penmynydd

5 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
    St Gredifael's Church

    St Gredifael's Church is a former Church in Wales parish church in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales. The church was originally constructed in the 6th century by St Gredifael for whom it was named with the current stone building being constructed in the 12th century.

    1 km · church in Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Marquess of Anglesey's Column

    The Marquess of Anglesey's Column, or Anglesey Column, is a Doric column near Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on the island of Anglesey, Wales. It commemorates the military achievements in the Napoleonic Wars of Henry William Paget, the first marquess of Anglesey, who is depicted in the statue at the top of the column.

    3.7 km · monument in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog

    St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, is a former parish church in Anglesey, Wales, which is now closed and in ruins. The structure dates from the 15th century and a chapel was added to the north side in the 17th century.

    3.4 km · church in Anglesey, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cors Bodeilio National Nature Reserve

    Cors Bodeilio National Nature Reserve lies in a shallow valley outside Talwrn on the Isle of Anglesey. Most of the land consists of a lime-rich mire.

    3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Ffinan's Church

    St Ffinan's Church, Llanffinan, is a small 19th-century parish church built in the Romanesque revival style, in Anglesey, north Wales. There has been a church in this area, even if not on this precise location, since at least 1254, and 19th-century writers state that St Ffinan established the first church here in the 7th century.

    1.9 km · church in Llanffinan, 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 Penmynydd

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 93 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 97 km · Manchester (MAN), 130 km
Stations
Llanfairpwll railway station, 3.1 km · Ceint railway station, 2.2 km
  • Liverpool → Penmynydd
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £11–15
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Penmynydd
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £15–21
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Penmynydd
    188 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Penmynydd

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 Penmynydd. 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

    232 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    266 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    301 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    320 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    348 km

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