Llywernog Mine, Aberystwyth

Name: Llywernog Mine
Address: Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

#3 among attractions in Aberystwyth

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Llywernog Mine is an 18th-century silver-lead mine in Llywernog, Ponterwyd, Ceredigion, Wales, currently run as an industrial heritage museum and tourist attraction. It is one of many silver-lead mines in Wales, and unlike many others it still has a large number of intact buildings and mining equipment, much of which has been restored as part of the museum. ()

Coordinates: 52°24'42"N, 3°51'55"W

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Aberystwyth United Kingdom

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Day trips

Llywernog Mine – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Plynlimon, Pen y Garn, The Silver Mountain Experience, Mynach Falls.

5.1 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Plynlimon
132 min walk • Pumlumon is the highest point of the Cambrian Mountains in Wales, and the highest point in Mid Wales. It is a massif that dominates the surrounding countryside and is the highest point of Ceredigion.
4.7 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen y Garn
121 min walk • Pen y Garn is a mountain in the Cambrian Mountains, Mid Wales standing at 611 metres above sea level. Pen y Garn tops a 500–600 m high plateau, which includes the controversial Cefn Croes wind farm.
~50 ftW
52°24'42"N • 3°51'56"W
The Silver Mountain Experience, Ponterwyd
1 min walk • Mine, Museum
2.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Waterfall
Mynach Falls, Devil's Bridge
64 min walk • Mynach Falls is a waterfall near Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. It occurs where the River Mynach drops 90 metres in 5 steps down a steep and narrow ravine before it meets the River Rheidol.
5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Hafod Uchtryd
128 min walk • Hafod Uchtryd is a wooded and landscaped estate in the Ystwyth valley in Ceredigion, Wales. Near Devil's Bridge, Cwmystwyth and Pont-rhyd-y-groes, it is off the B4574 road.
2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Coed Rheidol National Nature Reserve, Devil's Bridge
50 min walk • Coed Rheidol National Nature Reserve forms part of the long ribbon of woodland adjoining the Afon Mynach and Afon Rheidol around the lower slopes of hills near Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion.
4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Nant-y-moch Reservoir
104 min walk • Nant-y-moch Reservoir Welsh pronunciation is situated in the Cambrian Mountains in northern Ceredigion, Wales, near Pumlumon. The reservoir which flooded a part of the valley of the River Rheidol and its headwaters derives its name from a stream, the Nant-y-moch, which formerly flowed into the River Rheidol at this spot.
1.8 miSW
Zoo
The Magic of Life Butterfly House, Ponterwyd
48 min walk • The Magic of Life Butterfly House is an all-weather butterfly zoo visitor attraction near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion in Wales. It was opened in July 2002 by rain forest conservationist, the Earl of Cranbrook.
3.7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Y Garn
96 min walk • Y Garn is a subsidiary summit of Pen Pumlumon Fawr and the fourth highest peak on the Plynlimon massif, a part of the Cambrian Mountains in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.
2.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Cwmsymlog
71 min walk • Cwmsymlog is a short valley, sheltering a hamlet of the same name, in Ceredigion, in the west of Wales. Once an important mining area, but the mining slowly declined and finally came to an end in 1901.
5 miW
Forts and castles
Ystrad Peithyll
127 min walk • Ystrad Peithyll is the remains of a small 12th-century motte-and-bailey castle on the River Peithyll, near Penrhyn-coch in northern Ceredigion, Wales. The castle was attacked and destroyed by followers of Gruffydd ap Rhys in the early 12th century.