The
Nearest Shop to the excellent camping and Holiday Cottage at Ty
Newydd,
Church
Bay, Anglesey, North Wales
When
you stay at
Ty Newydd whether camping on the camp site or in one of the excellent
self-catering
accomodation cottages that are so close to the wonderful Church Bay
beach,
you have a number of options for shopping. You can drive over
to
Penhros which is a little over 11 miles - here are the usual culprits -
Tesco, Morrisons, Argos etc. You can go to Valley which has
quite a good Spar shop and is a little closer at just under 9 miles.
Or...... there is a small shop in Llanfaethlu selling newspapers,
groceries and local bread not much over a mile and half away.
If
you go by car it's about four miles there and back but by foot you can
shortcut a chunk of the road out (see the map below). It's not a
massive shop but if you don't need much it's a really pleasant little
walk along the lanes then along one of the many footpaths that surround
Church Bay.
Last time we went
the shop it seemed to be open from early in the morning even
on
Sundays so it was very handy for getting papers every day.
It’s also a post office on certain days in the week so pretty
handy to know, all in all. According to Googlemaps there's a
coffee house/cafe there too but I didn't see that last time - will
check see if it's still there next time I go.
From
the
Cottages and camping at Ty Newydd , just up from the beach at Church
Bay you can walk there and back in an hour and probably do it in 30
minutes if you’re a good runner (I'm not and it only took me
40
minutes there and back). The route I’d suggest is
as
follows:
Setting
off from
Ty Newydd camping and Holiday Cottages (Number 1 above) in
Church
Bay, Anglesey.
Turn right at the top of the road from the beach and follow the road
until you get to some white cottages called Parc Newyd (number 2
above), you'll see a public footpath sign just after the cottages
(highlighted by red arrow!).
Follow
the
sign and go straight up the left hand edge of the field
heading
towards the red arrow (number 3 on the map)
When
you get to
the top of the field you'll reach a stile (number 3 on the map) - this
picture is looking back at the stile down the field you've just come up.
Once
you're over this style you keep heading uphill to your right up this
track:
You
will
pass the ruin of the old Telegraph Station and you start going
down the other side of the hill. At the bottom of the hill there's the entrance
to
a beautiful house called Carreglwyd built in 1634 by Dr William
Griffiths (who was the
Chancellor of St Asaph and Master of the Rolls to Charles the First).
The entrance below is number 4 on the map above).
You
continue past the entrance and start to climb the hill towards
Llanfaethlu along the drive from the main road:
Follow
the drive
up towards the village of Llanfaethlu (number 5 on the map at the top).
When I came up this drive in August 2010 there were hundreds
of ducks - no idea why - very strange.
This
is looking
back from the top of the drive. Once you've gone over this cattle grid
you're back on the main road. Follow it into Llanfaethlu and
about two hundred yards on your left is the village shop and post
office - newspapers, groceries, bread - the basics all not much more
than a mile and a half from the campsite and cottages at Ty
Newydd, Church Bay, Anglesey.
Below
is my
jogging route tracked by my GPS Garmin 305cx watch. Not
particularly quick but every time I come here I seem to drink a little
bit more than I ought to!
On
the route
above there's a bit of a triangle where I took a slight detour on the
way back - the picture below is of Ynys Mon and Holyhead taken from the
little mound in the middle of that field on the tip of the triangle.
Not a bad view really!
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