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EAT AND DRINK

MOELFRE

Anne’s Pantry inexpensive

Family-run café and restaurant where

you can start the day with a “lifeboat”

breakfast, and carry on with fresh fish

and shell fish, locally farmed meat and

local goats’ cheese.

Moelfre, LL72 8HL; 01248 410 386;

http://www.annspantry.co.uk; open daily

10am–9pm

Kinmel Arms moderate

This pub offers good panoramic

seafront views and a wide menu

including daily specials, and is popular

with the locals.

Moelfre Bay, LL72 8LL; 01248 410 231

LLANFAIRPWLL

Tafarn Ty Gwyn inexpensive

Lively village pub with good food at

reasonable prices.

8 Holyhead Road, LL61 5UJ;

01248 715 599

Below left Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych-

wyrndrobwllllandysiliogogogoch Below

Neo-Gothic and Neo-Classical Plas Newydd

DRIVE 14: Through Snowdonia National Park

Eat and Drink: inexpensive, under £25; moderate, £25–£50; expensive, over £50

Right Headland and Monument to the Royal

Charter, near Moelfre

q Plas Newydd

Anglesey; LL61 6DQ

Just outside Llanfair PG, Plas Newydd

(open mid-Mar–end Oct: Sat–Wed; 01248

715 272) is the ancestral home of the

Marquess of Anglesey. The house

was redesigned in the 18th century

by renowned architect James Wyatt

in a mixture of Neo-Gothic and Neo-

Classical styles. It is set in parkland

with beautiful walks and dramatic

views over the Menai Straits and

Snowdonia.The long dining room

features a massive 18-m (58-ft) mural

of a mythological harbour scene

by the artist and set designer Rex

Whistler c.1936-40, who died in

World War II. There is a small military

museum about the 1st Marquess

of Anglesey, who was the Duke of

Wellington’s cavalry commander at

the Battle of Waterloo.

ª Return on A4080, turn right onto A5

and under flyover to cross back to main-

land (to bypass Bangor take A55). Keep

on the A5 to Betws-y-Coed. In the town

centre, turn left over bridge to car park.

0 Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-
gogerychwyrndrobwll-
llandysiliogogogoch
Anglesey; LL61
The name means “Church of St Mary
in the hollow of the white hazel trees,
near a fierce whirlpool and the Church
of St Tysilio, near the red cave.” Often
shortened to Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll,
at 58 letters long it is the longest
place name in Britain. It was devised
by the Victorians to attract tourists. The
train station sign is the usual subject
for photos. Nearby is the Marquess of
Anglesey’s Column (open daily) a 27-m
(89-ft) monument to Henry William
Paget who lost his leg at the Battle of
Waterloo. Climb the 115 steps for a
fabulous panorama. Oriel Ty Gorsaf
(summer: closed Mon, Thu; winter: closed
Mon, Tue; http://www.orieltygorsaf.co.uk)) is a
stained-glass gallery with work from
glass artists from around the world.
ª Turn right out of car park onto
Holyhead Rd and turn right onto A4080
to Plas Newydd (signed) and car park. A
minibus shuttles visitors to the house.