Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
One of the joys of Betws is wandering along its riverbanks and criss-crossing over its
historic bridges. The main road crosses the Conwy at the 32m-wide
Waterloo Bridge
. Known
locally as the 'iron bridge', it bears a large inscription celebrating its construction in the
year the battle was fought (1815). Behind the information centre a pleasant path leads
around the tongue of land framed by the convergence of the Rivers Conwy and Llugwy,
and back past St Michael's Church. Nearby,
Sapper's Bridge
is a white suspension footbridge
(1930), which crosses the Conwy and leads through the fields up to the A470.
At the other end of the village, the 15th-century stone
Pont-y-Pair
(Bridge of the
Cauldron) crosses a set of rapids on the Llugwy. A riverside path leads to the
Miners' Bridge
, about a mile downstream, so called as this was the route miners took on their way to
work in nearby lead mines. This was the oldest crossing of the Llugwy, but the original
bridge is long gone.
