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Trefarthen

Trefarthen is a village in the community of Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales, which is 125.6 miles (202.1 km) from Cardiff and 209.2 miles (336.7 km) from London.

The place

Trefarthen is a village in the community of Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales, which is 125.6 miles (202.1 km) from Cardiff and 209.2 miles (336.7 km) from London.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Trefarthen

10 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
    Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

    The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site located in North West Wales. It includes the castles of Beaumaris and Harlech and the castles and town walls of Caernarfon and Conwy.

    3.4 km · World Heritage site in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Caernarfon Castle

    Caernarfon Castle is a medieval fortress in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The first fortification on the site was a motte-and-bailey castle built in the late 11th century, which King Edward I of England began to replace with the current stone structure in 1283.

    3.5 km · castle in Caernarfon, North Wales · 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.

    1.4 km · church in Llanidan, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2 km · Welsh prehistoric site · 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.

    900 m · British aquarium and marine research centre · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.7 km · church in Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    3.2 km · hotel and public house in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Q5016872

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

    1.7 km · archaeological site in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    1.5 km · church in Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Oval

    The Oval is a multi-use stadium in Caernarfon, Wales. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Caernarfon Town F.C. The stadium holds 3,000 people, with 1,200 seats.

    3.9 km · Multi-use stadium in Caernarfon, Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Trefarthen

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 96 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 104 km · Manchester (MAN), 134 km
Stations
Caernarfon railway station, 3.6 km · Caernarvon railway station, 2.8 km
  • Liverpool → Trefarthen
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £11–15
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Trefarthen
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £16–21
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Trefarthen
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Trefarthen

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 Trefarthen. 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

    273 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

    327 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    343 km

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

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