Name: View of Little Orme (Trwyn y Fuwch)
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Location: Llandudno, Conwy, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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Stuart Prouse

March 5, 2024

Trwyn Y Fuwch has a very large rock formation of hills, these stick out considerably as you ride along the flat promenade. When you get close to then you realise the size

Mike Cree

May 4, 2024

The Little Orme (Welsh: Rhiwledyn, also known as Trwyn y Fuwch, Trwyn y Gogarth and Y Gogarth Fach) is 141 metres (463 ft) in height, and is a HuMP (having a minimum Hundred Metre Prominence). It is one of two headlands situated at either end of Llandudno Bay, in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The other, larger, headland is the Great Orme. It has two summits, the higher with a trig point.

The cliffs are a popular challenge for highly experienced rock climbers. The Coast Guard Rescue Unit use the Little Orme for training. Otherwise, it is a popular sightseeing location and walking/hiking site.

The Little Orme was inhabited during the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, notably the Pant y Wennol cave.

A small hoard of Iron Age Celtic metalwork was found in a cave on the Little Orme.

The medieval chapel of Blessed Mary of Penrhyn, abandoned in 1930 and now in ruins, is at the foot of the Little Orme in the grounds of Penrhyn Hall at Penrhyn Bay.

On 14 April 1587, printing material for Catholic literature was found in a cave on the Little Orme, where it had been used by the recusant Robert Pugh (squire of Penrhyn Hall) and his Chaplain Father William Davies to print Y Drych Cristianogawl (The Christian Mirror), the first book to be printed in Wales. They had taken refuge there during the persecution of Catholics instigated by Queen Elizabeth I in May 1586.

The Royal Artillery coastal gunnery school, 198 battery, was posted to Little Orme during the Second World War. Target practice was undertaken from the headland to anchored boats, and unspent ammunition and unexploded shells may still be encountered offshore. Gun emplacements and ancillary buildings were in situ until at least the early 1960s, but the site has since been 'landscaped'.

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Location: Llandudno, Conwy, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

View of Little Orme (Trwyn y Fuwch)

1. Llandudno Promenade – Rhos-on-Sea Harbour loop from Llandudno

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3. Rhos-on-Sea Harbour – Llandudno Promenade loop from Colwyn Bay

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