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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.

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.