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The longest seaside pier in Wales is Llandudno Pier, which has a total length of 2,295 feet (or 700 metres), of which the original main pier is 1,234 feet (or 376 metres). Located on the North Wales coast and stretching out into the Irish Sea, Llandudno Pier was constructed over two years from 1876 and later extended landwards to the Promenade.

The statue of English footballer Duncan Edwards is located on Market Place in the centre of his home town of Dudley, West Midlands. The Manchester United and England national team player, was one of the Busby Babes, a group of young, talented footballers playing for Manchester United in the 1950s under manager Matt Busby. Edwards was one of eight Manchester United players who died as a result of the Munich air crash. He survived the crash but died from his injuries 15 days later on 21st February 1958, aged 21. His mother, Sarah-Anne Edwards, unveiled the statue in 1999, along with his Manchester United teammate, Sir Bobby Charlton, who survived the plane crash. The statue was relocated to the other end of Market Place during the town centre refurbishment, and rededicated in 2015.

You can bike around Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid) on a route that uses a cycle path and public highway. Follow the A494 from the lake car park to Llanuwchllyn, returning to Bala on the B4403 road that tracks the steam railway line. The 10 mile circuit has some inclines and takes an hour at a moderate pace.

Trwyn Du Lighthouse was built in 1838 by Trinity House at the north entrance to the Menai Strait. Situated at Penmon, the Isle of Anglesey’s easternmost point, the distinctive black and white banded circular stone tower lighthouse marks the passage for ships between the island and the nearby island of Ynys Seiriol (also known as Puffin Island). Originally manned by two keepers, Trwyn Du became the first lighthouse to be automated by Trinity House in 1922.

Penrhyn Castle as it stands today was built between 1820 and 1833.

Garth Pier in Bangor is 458 metres (or 1500 feet) in length, making it the second longest pier in Wales.

Mount Snowdon is 1085 metres (or 3650 feet) above sea level.

Menai Suspension Bridge has narrow arches with a width restriction of 2.6 metres and a height limit of 4.7 metres. HGVs, large lorries, and buses will normally use Britannia Bridge, the other bridge crossing the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland, which is subject to less restrictive width and height limits. During periods of high winds, when Britannia Bridge is closed to high-sided vehicles, the Menai Bridge offers an alternative crossing route, provided vehicle size limits are observed.

Menai Bridge was built between 1819 and 1826. The first stone was laid on 10th August 1819 and the completed bridge opened to traffic on 30 January 1826.

In 1914, over 60 refugees from the German-occupied city of Mechelen in Belgium were accommodated in Menai Bridge on Anglesey. In gratitude for the town’s hospitality, a group of them built this 400 metre promenade along the Menai Strait from Ynys Tysilio (Church Island) to Carreg yr Halen, completing it in 1916. It was rebuilt in 1963 and ceremonially reopened in 1965 by surviving refugee Eduard Wilhelms. Accessed from Beach Road, the hill running down from the Anglesey Arms Hotel, the Belgian Promenade follows a route along the water’s edge that emerges in the Coed Cyrnol car park near the Waitrose supermarket.

Britannia Bridge was engulfed by fire on the evening of 23 May 1970 and suffered extensive structural damage. At the time a railway bridge, it was substantially rebuilt over the following ten years to carry both rail and road traffic over the Menai Strait.

A concrete statue of Lord Horatio Nelson stands on the Menai Strait shoreline near Britannia Bridge. It was sculpted by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget and unveiled in 1873. It is not to be confused with the statue of Paget’s father, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, mounted on a high column half a mile inland.

The two white towers on Uppingham Road in Corby, Northamptonshire are the Beanfield Water Towers which are used as potable water storage tanks by Anglian Water. The smaller tower, Beanfield No 1, was constructed in the 1960s and holds 1.14 million litres of water. The bigger tower, Beanfield No 2, was added in the 1970s and has a capacity of 3.41 million litres.

Anglesey Circuit is on the west coast of Anglesey, between Rhosneigr and Aberffraw, and is signposted from Junction 5 of the A55.

Aberystwyth’s water supply comes from the Bont-goch Water Treatment Works which is fed from the Llyn Craig-y-pistyll and Llyn Llygad Rheidol reservoirs.