Carreg y Llam
on the Lleyn Peninsula
(Turn your speakers on and click refresh to hear how to pronounce Carreg y Llam)

Take a look at a short video panorama on YouTube taken from the front of the house click here to view
There is also a video walk around the outside of the house on YouTube click here to view

Dolphins are regular visitors to this coastline, click here to view and also here.

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from the bungalow you can walk down to Carreg Y Llam Headland and Bird Rock. You can walk further if you so desire.
One suggested walk can be seen by clicking
on this link Carreg y Llam and Pistyll.
This is a 3 mile walk, steep in places and rough walking conditions.
There is more information about walks in this area further down the page.

First, lets dispel a common myth about this area.

Contrary to popular belief, Wales, but more especially Llyn, does not suffer from torrential rain constantly and the sun actually does make an appearance.
Llyn benefits from the Gulf Stream which brings with it warm weather and of course warm waters (particularly on the south coast).
The Llyn Peninsula only receives about 36 inches of rain a year and gets over 200 hours of sunshine in the sunniest month of the year. The higher relief of Snowdonia and the other mountains in Wales do create more rainfall, but very often this does not affect Llyn as we are to the west.
Near Snowdon, over 200 inches of rain is recorded (on average) every year and it is one of the wettest places in Britain, with only places in western Scotland beating it.
Plus, the peninsula being what it is, means that like an island, there are sheltered beaches for walking whichever way the wind is blowing - so it won't have to be a bad hair day!
And so, though Llyn is in Wales, it does on average get better weather than many other parts of the country, and on many occasions we can be basking in sunshine while there is rain over the mountains (and its not the opposite way around very often either!).

Check the weather forecast for this area from the BBC website

Our email address is christine@carregyllam.co.uk

This was the area in 1840 - click on the map for a larger version

More on the local area around Llithfaen with photographs, with a walk starting and finishing at the Tafarn y Fic (Victoria Pub), Llithfaen. Click here

More walks are listed further down the page

For a lengthy article with photographs about this area click here

More on the industrial past

Click here for the Nant Gwytheyrn website

Click here for photographs that include some of this area

Click here for more photographs

Click here for some old photographs of ships in this area. Although the photographs state the ships are at 'Nant Gwytheyrn' many are at the old jetty (now removed) of Carreg y Llam.

Walks in our area

Walking in this area is very popular and highly recommended, there is a description of one very good walk on the Rhiw.com website, click here to view.
There are many interesting walks on the Llyn Peninsula. Details of three local to us are given in the links below.
The links are to PDF documents and require Adobe Acrobat reader to view (see bottom of page). To download the documents for reading at any time simply right click on a link and then select 'Save Target As...'

Carreg y Llam and Pistyll. A 3 mile walk, steep in places and rough walking conditions.

Porth Dinllaen. A 2 mile walk, easy walking conditions with some walking on beach, on sand and perhaps wet rocks.

Porthor and Mynydd Anelog. A 5.75 miles walk, steep in places, cliff paths can be very narrow. Walking boots advised.

Part of Gwynedd Councils Management Plan for the Lleyn. The Lleyn Peninsula is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and this section of the report offers an assessment of the many facets of the area.

Click here to view the Council report on the cessation of mineral workings at Carreg y Llam and 4 other local quarries. The first 2 pages are in Welsh and the last 2 in English.

The Welsh Assembly Government has published a document 'Protecting Welsh Seas - A draft Strategy for Marine Protected Areas in Wales'. Click here to view (this is a pdf document). To download the document right click on the link then select 'Save Target As ...'
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