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SH8878 : Wales Coast Path and National Cycle Route 5

taken 6 years ago, near to Mynydd Marian, Conwy, Wales

Wales Coast Path and National Cycle Route 5
Wales Coast Path and National Cycle Route 5
Heading west towards Colwyn Bay alongside the A55 North Wales Expressway.
Wales Coast Path

The Wales Coast Path (Welsh: Llwybr Arfordir Cymru) is a long distance footpath which follows the whole of the coastline of Wales. It opened on 5 May 2012, and offers a 870 mile long route from Chepstow in the south to Queensferry in the north.
Wales is the first country in the world to provide a dedicated footpath along its entire coastline. The Path runs through eleven National Nature Reserves and other nature reserves, including those managed by The Wildlife Trusts or Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
Logo can be seen atSS0897 : Logo, Wales Coast Path.
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National Cycle Route 5

National Route 5 of the National Cycle Network is a long distance route which when complete will connect Reading and Holyhead via Oxford, Banbury, Stratford-upon-Avon, Redditch, Bromsgrove, Birmingham, Walsall, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Chester, Colwyn Bay and Bangor. The southern half of the route between Reading and Walsall is open and signed whilst the northern half between Walsall and Holyhead is still under development.

The North Wales Expressway (A55)

The A55, also known as the North Wales Expressway (Gwibffordd Gogledd Cymru), is the major road in North Wales running for 88 miles between Chester and Holyhead via Conwy and Bangor.

The A55 is a very high quality road, much of it rebuilt since the 1970s in response to traffic problems in Colwyn Bay, Colwyn and Llandudno caused by traffic having to pass through town centres on totally unsuitable streets, (especially in Conwy where lorries often scraped their paintwork as they passed through 12th century arches in the town's walls), leading to the construction of an east-west expressway bypassing the urban centres. It is a dual carriageway primary route for its entire length with the exception of the point where it crosses the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait. All of its junctions are grade separated except for two roundabouts; one east of Penmaenmawr and one in Llanfairfechan. The road originally ran from Chester to Bangor but was extended parallel to the A5 across Anglesey right into Holyhead Docks in 2001.

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Geographical Context: Coastal Paths Roads, Road transport Long Distance Path: Wales Coast Path National Cycle Network: Route 5 Road: A55 Primary Subject: Path
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SH8878, 114 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Mat Fascione   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 16 April, 2019   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 18 November, 2019
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SH 886 785 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:17.5523N 3:40.3019W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SH 886 785
View Direction
West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
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