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Y Felinheli

Y Felinheli, formerly known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village and community beside the Menai Strait between Bangor and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, northwest Wales.

Y Felinheli
Y Felinheli · Geoff Charles
The place

Y Felinheli, formerly known in English as Port Dinorwic, is a village and community beside the Menai Strait between Bangor and Caernarfon in Gwynedd, northwest Wales.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Y Felinheli

6 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
    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'.

    3.2 km · prehistoric site on the Welsh island of Anglesey; Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3 km · church in Llanidan, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.2 km · house in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.5 km · church in Llanidan, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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 km · family fun park · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    1.1 km · church in Llanedwen, 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 Y Felinheli

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 92 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 104 km · Manchester (MAN), 130 km
Stations
Port Dinorwic railway station, 400 m
  • Liverpool → Y Felinheli
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–14
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Y Felinheli
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £15–20
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Y Felinheli
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £20–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Y Felinheli

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 Y Felinheli. 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

    225 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

    308 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

    342 km

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