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Menai Bridge
Town and community in Anglesey, Wales

Menai Bridge

Menai Bridge is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west Wales.

It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford, just over the water from Bangor. Menai Bridge has a population of 3,376.

Get in

Getting to Menai Bridge

Drive over the bridge on the A5 from Bangor or taxi from the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch rail station. Bus service 53, 56, 57, 58 Bangor - Beaumaris goes through Menai Bridge.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Menai Suspension Bridge

    Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826.

  2. 02
    Church Island

    Menai Bridge (park at car park on Mona Road & walk down path).

  3. 03
    Pili Palas
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Dorothy Russell Quilt Artist

    Dorothy Russell is a Textile Artist offering private and group tuition in Patchwork and Quilting from beginner to advanced.

  2. 02
    Menai Heritage

    Thomas Telford Centre,Mona Road, Menai Bridge LL59 5EA, info@menaiheritage.org.uk.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    The Bridge Inn
  2. 02
    Taste Of India

    27-29 High Street,.

  3. 03
    Sosban
How locals move

Getting around Menai Bridge the local way

  • Go nextYou can buy ferry tickets to Dublin (departing from Holyhead) at any of the travel agents on the town's one main road (the High Street).

From Wikivoyage: Bangor (Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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