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Borth
Seaside village in Ceredigion, Wales

Borth

Borth is a village, seaside resort and community in Ceredigion, Mid Wales; it is located 7 miles (11 km) north of Aberystwyth, on the Ceredigion Coast Path.

The community includes the settlement of Ynyslas and the population was 1,399 in 2011. Borth's sandy beach has helped to promote it as a seaside resort.

Get in

Getting to Borth

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    Borth

    The Cambrian Line between Machynlleth and Aberystwyth.

See

Worth seeing

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    Ynyslas

    Large sandy beach and sand dunes on the Dyfi estuary.

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    Borth Animalarium

    Daily: Nov-Mar 10AM-4PM; Apr-Oct 10AM-6PM.

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    Borth

    Sat Tue Thu 11AM-4PM, Sun Bank holidays noon-4PM.

Do

Things to do

The beach. Walk along the cliff tops along part of the Wales Coast Path to Aberystwyth

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    Borth and Ynyslas Golf Club
Eat

Where to eat

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    Victoria Inn

    High St,.

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    The Acorn
How locals move

Getting around Borth the local way

  • Get inTo Holyhead there are ferries from Dublin and Dún Laoghaire; and to Fishguard from Rosslare.
  • Go nextPennine Way walk running the spine of England from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders Coast To Coast Walk a 190-mile long-distance walking trail in England which crosses the North of England from St Bees in Cumbria on the West coast to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire on the East coast.

From Wikivoyage: Wales Coast Path, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.