National Beekeeping Centre Wales

Anglesey & the North Coast


This nonprofit organisation is dedicated to encouraging people to take up beekeeping. Its corner of the Bodnant Welsh Food complex has interesting displays about the plight of the honey bee, a live hive-cam and lots of bee-produced products to sample and purchase. In warm weather it runs apiary tours (minimum two people) and offers beekeeping courses (from £60).


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Anglesey & the North Coast attractions

1. Bodnant Welsh Food

0.01 MILES

On the west side of the vast Bodnant Estate, a collection of lavishly restored 18th-century farm buildings now operates as Bodnant Welsh Food. One of the…

2. Bodnant Garden

0.32 MILES

Laid out in 1875 and painstakingly landscaped over 150 years, Bodnant is one of Wales’ most beautiful gardens. Lord Aberconway of the McLaren family …

3. Town Wall

3.3 MILES

The survival of most of its 1300m-long town wall, built concurrently with the castle, makes Conwy one of the UK’s prime medieval sites. The wall was…

4. Conwy Castle

3.31 MILES

Caernarfon is more complete, Harlech more dramatically positioned and Beaumaris more technically perfect, yet out of the four castles that compose the…

5. Mill Gate

3.33 MILES

The twin-towered Mill Gate, one of two gatehouses in the southern stretch of Conwy's town wall, was built to allow access to the royal watermill, outside…

6. Upper Gate

3.4 MILES

The entrance to the largest section of town wall starts from the station and heads up to the Upper Gate (where there are great views over the town to the…

7. Plas Mawr

3.43 MILES

Completed in 1585 for merchant and courtier Robert Wynn, Plas Mawr is one of Britain's finest surviving Elizabethan town houses. The tall, whitewashed…

8. Aberconwy House

3.44 MILES

Timber-and-plaster Aberconwy House is the town's oldest, built as one of 20 merchants' houses when the town was fortified around 1300. Over the years it…