BBC Countryfile Magazine

05 CONWY GREAT ORME

5 miles/8.1km

3 hours

Moderate

286m

The Great Orme, lying close to the seaside resort of Llandudno in Conwy, is a spectacular limestone headland formed during the Carboniferous era, when this part of Wales lay under the sea.

Now managed as a country park, this unspoilt landscape offers much to fascinate the family, from spotting

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