Ynyslas
Ynyslas is a small village about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Borth and 8 miles (13 km) north of Aberystwyth, within the county of Ceredigion, Wales.
Ynyslas is a small village about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Borth and 8 miles (13 km) north of Aberystwyth, within the county of Ceredigion, Wales. It is sandwiched between a long sandy beach in Cardigan Bay and the beach in the Dyfi Estuary. The area between the sea and the estuary beach is made up of the Ynyslas Sand Dunes which are part of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and home to many rare plants and animals. The sands of the estuary beach can be driven onto and parked upon. The nature reserve has a visitor centre with toilets.
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Worth seeing in and around Ynyslas
One place 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.
- 01Borth Wild Animal Kingdom
Borth Animalarium, formerly known as Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, is a zoo, located in the seaside Welsh town of Borth, 7 miles north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Mid Wales. It occupies 12 acres and in 2015 had some 27,000 visitors..
3 km · British Zoo · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ynyslas
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 122 km · Cardiff (CWL), 133 km · Manchester (MAN), 151 km
- Stations
- Penhelig railway station, 4 km · Aberdovey railway station, 3.6 km · Borth railway station, 2.3 km
- Liverpool → Ynyslas123 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £14–19
- Cardiff → Ynyslas129 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £16–21
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ynyslas162 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · £19–26
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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 Ynyslas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries from Ireland to Wales arrive at Holyhead (from Dublin) and Fishguard (from Rosslare).
- Go nextUnless you've brought your speedboat, though, it's a 35-mile journey by road, as the first bridge across the River Dyfi is at Machynlleth.
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