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Why You SHOULD Visit Llandudno! - Seafront Tour, North Wales

Walk With Me Tim

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Llandudno is a coastal town in North Wales. It’s known for North Shore Beach and 19th-century Llandudno Pier, with shops and a games arcade. Northwest of town, the cliffs of Great Orme headland jut into the sea. Ancient tunnels lead to a cavern at Great Orme Mines. A 1902 tramway has an upper and lower section, and travels to the headland’s summit. To the east, smaller headland Little Orme is a nature reserve. In 2022 the Great Orme Tramway will celebrate its 120th anniversary, yet each year thousands of people still take immense pleasure in travelling to the summit of the Great Orme in an original early twentieth century tramcar. Others prefer to wind their way around the headland, admiring some of the most strikingly beautiful and dramatic scenery, which is visible only from the Marine Drive. This four mile shelf was cut out of the sheer limestone cliffs in 1878 and is designed for vehicles and walkers alike. Alternatively, it is possible to catch a bus in opposte the Pier and go on an informative and visually rewarding sight-seeing tour of the Orme.

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@WalkWithMeTim Creator 4 years ago Pinned

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@DaRabble-akaMoJo 4 years ago

Llandudno will always hold a special place in my heart. My parents met at the end of the pier back in 1969. They got married a year later and were together till they both died in 2018 ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@BereniceLydia 4 years ago

My beautiful home. I came here as a student thirty years ago and fell in love with this magnificent town. I never left.

@grahamjpjones 4 years ago (edited)

I have the privilage to live in Llandudno, my family having lived here for around 150 years. Its always great to see videos like this one showing the town at its best. Diolch yn fawr iawn i ti (thanks very much to you)

@peterlewis3540 4 years ago

The reason to visit Llandudno, is that it has a distinctive Victorian charm.
Also 98% of the land the town is built on, is owned by Lord Mostyn, its been like this since the late 16C.

Lord Mostyn lives permanently in London, but his land agents, Mostyn estates, rule llandudno with a rod of iron.
Any hotel or B&B that looks a little shabby, is told in no certain terms to do something about it, that's why the resorts famous North Parade looks so magnificent.

No ice cream or chip shop vendors or even amusements are allowed on its famous promenade, and the oldest Punch & Judy still operating in the Uk, the Codman family only recently gained permission for a permanent stand on the prom.

Richard Codman first arrived in town in 1851, and the family have been entertaining the visitors ever since, but actually sighting the show on the prom itself, was only granted recently.

llandudno is such a lovely resort, with an easy paced way of life, and its been my home town for 23yrs, and i love it.

@iguana272 4 years ago

As a Gen Z kid, I've only ever known most of the UK's old seaside resorts as run-down shadows of what they used to be, but Llandudno seems to have avoided that decline. It is really nice that we have this preserved old resort town to enjoy even today, and I can vouch that the cable car is definitely worth a go.

@cosmic4037 3 years ago

Llandudno got it right in every way, traditional Seaside fun...

@anthonyphilips7171 4 years ago

It's nostalgia time again ....

Way back in the 1960s, there used to be a ferry service from Liverpool to LLandudno; if you didn't want to stop here, you could stay on to Bangor, but most people would disembark at the LLandudno pier for a few hours; there would even be time to take the tram to the top of the Great Orme. This service enabled a relatively cheap day out during the school summer holidays when one parent, usually the mother, had to provide entertainment for her bored children.

I don't know when the ferry service ceased to be in business but I can clearly recall being with my girlfriend (later my wife) on top of the Great Orme listening to Alan "Fluff" Freeman host Radio 1's Pick Of The Pops on my transistor radio. By the time we returned to Llandudno to catch the ferry, Alan concluded the show with The Rolling Stones' Jumping Jack Flash, so that dates it to the summer of 1968.

@mikey76710 2 years ago

Llandudno a really beautiful place I love to sit on the pier and watch the world go by it really is my happy place

@adamquirke6024 3 years ago

Llandudno is lovely. A proper holiday destination.

@eddiecarlton7581 1 year ago

My wife & I have been going to Llandudno for over 40 years . We have sadly decided not to go anymore to our beloved Llandudno, it has sadly gone to look more like Calcutter over the last couple of years. Goodbye Llandudno we had so many many happy times there..

@elizaphe58 4 years ago

My Honeymoon Town in 1978!
Stunning Town fabulous views.
My Hubby his Granddad born Conwy Family lived in Llandudno.
Now my Son and his family live in Deganwy.

@angleseyisle 4 years ago

Best place in the world! so much more to see than the towns

@angelashort1331 2 years ago

My mother Valerie Biddle , spent her holidays here as a girl , 85 years ago , She wrote a book on her happy childhood and her best , most fond memories were of this lovely seaside town , Thankyou , Wales , for the joy you gave her life , , She had a lovely cousin called Bertie there whom she adored , God bless , from nz, where she came to as a war bride . CHEERS,❤nz ❤

@markusbalmer7501 2 years ago

Wow so many good memories there have been there now in over 10 years would be emotional for me to go back

@howardjones3875 4 years ago

My Father was a Policeman in Llandudno from around 1962 until around 1968. He is 86 now and has plenty of old stories.He remembers The Beatles playing at the Palladium. Was born there back in 1965 lived near West Shore.Still my favourite place in the UK.

@ToTheRegiment 4 years ago

I believe the reason Llandudno has retained its charm (unlike other seaside towns) is because a local law was past back in the 1800s preventing any kind of trading along the promenade other than hotels, not even an ice-cream can be sold on the prom, the arcades and fair rides etc are gathered on the pier. The nicest seaside town in the UK.

@markjones127 4 years ago

Great video, I'm from neighbouring Colwyn Bay and the council took a different approach with our beach in recent years, they turned it into a permanent beach by raising its level with sand pumped in from the seabed a little further out to sea, it's a much better solution to pebbles and has made the beach here really popular again like being back in the 70's when Colwyn Bay was a much more popular destination than it is now. This approach would look amazing on Llandudno's North Shore, my favourite local beach is Llandudno's West Shore though, amazing when the tide is all the way out (and it goes out a LONG way!)

@jayneevans9625 3 years ago

I first came in 1972 on a school trip. I then returned a few years ago on a family holiday for about 4 years on the trot. We stayed in self-catering accommodation each time near the North Shore.

@martinhughes2549 4 years ago (edited)

The stone circle represents that the Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru ( National Eisteddfod of Wales ) was held in Llandudno. Many local people speak Welsh. The Great Orme is called Pen Y Gogarth in Welsh and has Sant Tudno' s Church. The pier BTW used to have ships that went to the Isle of Man.