Places To Visit

With numerous attractions and activities within easy reach you are sure to find something for all the family to enjoy. Here are just a few ideas, There’s many more to be found within the leaflets in the cottage.

PWLLHELI is a busy market town with a weekly market on Wednesday in Y Maes. The market is one of the busiest in Britain, and you’re bound to find a good bargain! Also in the town centre you will find many shops, selling everything you need. The town is full of seaside character.

The impressive new marina is now one of the best in Wales, with 24 hour access and all the services boaters need. The marina berths over 400 boats and there is space for visitors to moor up overnight. The marina has brought many more boaters to Pwllheli and helped other aspects of tourism in the area.

Pwllheli has two beaches. South Beach, which is mainly shingle, has been awarded the Blue Flag Award for clean sands and waters. South Beach stretches from Gimblet Rock, across the promenade, and around towards Llanbedrog.

PORT MEIRION village is set on its own private peninsula on the southern shores of Snowdonia. It was created by Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) to demonstrate how a naturally beautiful place could be developed without spoiling it. Portmeirion is made up of about 50 buildings most of which are used as hotel or self-catering accommodation and surrounded by 70 acres of sub-tropical woodland gardens.

Clough acquired the site for Portmeirion in 1925 for less than £5,000 as it was then, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping and 'improvement enthusiasm' into sorrowful bankruptcy." His purchase was noted in an article on Clough in The Architects Journal (January 6 1926): "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance".

There are several Manor Houses and Stately Homes in the area which you may like to visit. Plas Yn Rhiw is a small manor house with garden and woodlands. Part Medieval with Tudor and Georgian additions it offers spectacular views across Cardigan Bay. Plas Newydd (Anglesey) is an elegant C18th house situated on the banks of the Menai Strait, with stunning views of Snowdonia. For Art lovers there is an exhibition of Rex Whistler's work, as well as his largest painting. Along with a Military museum, gardens, woodland and marine walk, Adventure playtrail, boat trips, shop and tearooms there is something to suit everyone's tastes.