Berw Fault, Malltraeth Marsh

Name: Berw Fault
Address: Malltraeth Marsh, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Malltraeth Marsh

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The Berw Fault is a SW-NE trending fault in North Wales. It forms part of the Menai Strait Fault System, with the Dinorwic Fault and the Aber Dinlle Fault. It has a long history of movement with early ductile fabrics preserved from a sinistral strike-slip sense shear zone active at the end of the Precambrian and into the early Cambrian. Any Caledonian deformation is unclear but the fault zone was reactivated in the Carboniferous as a NW-throwing normal fault with seismic reflection data showing the formation of a half-graben in its hanging wall. There are no indications of inversion during the Variscan Orogeny, but the fault was reactivated in a normal sense during the Permian and Triassic and again during the Cenozoic with a sinistral strike-slip sense. ()

Coordinates: 53°13'12"N, 4°20'24"W

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Berw Fault – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Oriel Ynys Môn, Plas Menai, Caer Lêb, Llangefni Town Hall.

3.2 miN
Art gallery, Shopping, History museum
Oriel Ynys Môn, Llangefni
83 min walk • Oriel Môn is a museum and arts centre located in Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. A two-part centre, the History Gallery provides an insight into the island's culture, history and environment. The Art Gallery has a changing programme of exhibitions, encompassing art, craft, drama, sculpture and social history.
5.3 miSE
Watersports, Swimming pool
Plas Menai, Caernarfon
135 min walk • Plas Menai is the National Outdoor Centre for Wales. It is situated on the mainland side of the Menai Strait, and is approximately 3 miles East of Caernarfon, North Wales.
3.4 miSE
Prehistoric site
Caer Lêb, Anglesey
88 min walk • Caer Lêb is a Roman and mediaeval site on the Welsh island of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. Its name means "Leaven Castle". It is a low-lying site near the Afon Braint with a double row of pentangular banks and marshy ditches. The original entrance was on the east, other gaps are modern and caused by animals.
2.7 miNE
City hall
Llangefni Town Hall, Llangefni
70 min walk • Llangefni Town Hall is a civic building dating back to the mid 19th-century, in the town of Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building.
2.8 miNE
Church
St Cyngar's Church, Anglesey
73 min walk • St Cyngar's Church is a church in the town of Llangefni in Anglesey, Wales. The building dates from 1824. It was designated a Grade II listed building on 8 July 1952.
3.4 miSE
Prehistoric site
Castell Bryn Gwyn, Anglesey
86 min walk • Castell Bryn Gwyn is a prehistoric site on the Isle of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. It is a circular clay and gravel bank covered with grass, still some 1.5m high and revetted externally by stone walls, which surround a level area some 54 metres in diameter.
2.7 miSE
Prehistoric site
Bodowyr, Anglesey
69 min walk • Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber made of a few large stacked stones in a farmer's field on the north Wales island of Anglesey. It is located at Bodowyr Farm, 1.25 mi east of Llangaffo, off the B4419 road.
3.1 miS
Church
St Mary's Church, Anglesey
81 min walk • St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd is a small medieval parish church near the village of Dwyran, in Anglesey, north Wales. The building probably dates from the 15th century, with some alterations. It contains a 12th-century carved stone font and a 13th-century decorated coffin lid.
1.3 miNE
Church
St Cristiolus's Church, Anglesey
34 min walk • St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus is a medieval church near the village of Llangristiolus, in Anglesey, north Wales. The village, about 1 mile from the building, takes its name from the church. Reputedly founded by St Cristiolus in 610, the present building dates from the 12th and 13th centuries.
2.1 miS
Church
St Caffo's Church, Anglesey
53 min walk • St Caffo's Church, Llangaffo is a 19th-century church, in the south of Anglesey, north Wales, about 5 miles from the county town, Llangefni. It was constructed in 1846 to replace the previous medieval church in the village of Llangaffo.
3.3 miSE
Prehistoric site
Bryn Gwyn stones, Anglesey
86 min walk • The Bryn Gwyn stones stand about 280 metres to the south-west of Castell Bryn Gwyn, on the low ridge some 2 m above the valley of the Afon Braint on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. They are the tallest standing stones in Wales, nearly 4 m high.