The Village Today
The model village, within the loop of the former line of the A55 road, retains much of its original character, despite some more recent additions, having been declared a conservation area in 1974. The village is next to the Grand Lodge affording the principal entrance to Penrhyn Castle, the former seat of the Penrhyn family, now a National Trust property open to the public.
Outside the model village are also to be found –
- Off the A5 towards Bangor:
- Llandygai Gypsy Site
- Llandygai Industrial Estate
- Ty Newydd probation hostel
- Bangor Cricket Club (Ty Newydd ground)
- Off the A5 towards Bethesda:
- Parc Cegin business park (in development)
- Off the former line of the A5, now a narrow lane:
- Bangor Rugby Football Club
The Holyhead to Chester railway passes by the village through the Llandygai Tunnel, which is 442 yards in length, before emerging onto the Ogwen Viaduct to the east of the village.
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Famous quotes containing the words village and/or today:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind—he had been so for such a long time—but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)