Ynyslas Sand Dunes, Dyfi National Nature Reserve

Name: Ynyslas Sand Dunes
Address: Dyfi National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Dyfi National Nature Reserve

Nature, Top attraction, Natural attraction, Sand dune

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Ynyslas Sand Dunes, Dyfi National Nature Reserve

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Ynyslas Sand Dunes are sand dunes located in Ceredigion, Wales. They border Cardigan Bay and the Dyfi Estuary between Ynyslas, Ceredigion and Aberdyfi, Gwynedd. The sand dunes are part of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve. ()

Coordinates: 52°31'30"N, 4°3'25"W

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Dyfi National Nature Reserve United Kingdom

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Ynyslas Sand Dunes – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Borth Animalarium, Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Glandyfi Castle, Talyllyn Railway.

2.8 miS
Outdoor activities, Park, Zoo
Borth Animalarium, Borth
71 min walk • Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, formerly known as Borth Animalarium, is a zoo, located in the seaside Welsh town of Borth, 7 miles north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Mid Wales. It occupies 12 acres and in 2015 had some 27,000 visitors..
4.3 miN
Museum
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn
109 min walk • The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow-gauge railways situated at the Tywyn Wharf station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The museum has a collection of more than 1,000 items from over eighty narrow-gauge railways in Wales, England, the Isle of Man, Ireland and Scotland.
5.6 miE
Forts and castles
Glandyfi Castle, Machynlleth
144 min walk • Glandyfi Castle in Glandyfi, Ceredigion, Wales, is a mock castle dating from the early 19th century. It was built for George Jeffreys, described by some as an evangelist, and by others as a barrister, circa 1819.
4.3 miN
52°35'1"N • 4°5'21"W
Talyllyn Railway, Tywyn
109 min walk • Scenic railroads, Tours, Museum
4.5 miN
Church
St Cadfan's Church, Tywyn
115 min walk • St Cadfan's Church is situated in Tywyn in the county of Gwynedd, formerly Merionethshire, Wales. The church is noted for its Romanesque architecture and for housing the Cadfan Stone, a stone cross dating from ninth century or earlier which is inscribed with the oldest known written Welsh.
2.9 miS
52°28'57"N • 4°2'58"W
Borth Community Hall, Borth
76 min walk • City hall
4.5 miN
Memorial
Cadfan Stone, Tywyn
115 min walk • Inside St Cadfan's Church, Tywyn, Gwynedd is an inscribed stone cross called the Cadfan Stone. On it are the earliest known inscriptions in the Welsh language, specifically in Old Welsh.
5.7 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Broad Water
146 min walk • Broad Water, or Broadwater is a salt water lagoon near Tywyn, Wales formed from the silted up estuary of the River Dysynni. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the estuary was used by the shipbuilding industry, as small sailing ships were launched to carry peat from the local peat bogs.
4.9 miE
Locality
Ynys-hir RSPB reserve
126 min walk • Ynys-hir RSPB reserve is a nature reserve of the RSPB situated beside the Dyfi estuary in Ceredigion, mid Wales between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth. The reserve covers 550 hectares and includes a variety of habitats extending inland from mudflats and salt marsh through farmland and pools to oak woodland and hillside scrub.
5.2 miN
Park
Ynysymaengwyn, Snowdonia National Park
134 min walk • Ynysymaengwyn was a gentry house in the parish of Tywyn, Gwynedd, situated near the left bank of the River Dysynni. The name means 'the white stone island'.
4.5 miS
Forts and castles
Castell Gwallter
116 min walk • Castell Gwallter, also known as Walter's Castle and sometimes Castell Penweddig, is the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle situated on a large hill above the old village of Llandre in northern Ceredigion, Wales, four miles northeast of Aberystwyth.