Tyddyn Sydney Bach is located in the secluded grounds of a large cottage in the village of Treborth, between the internationally famous Britannia and Menai Bridges crossing to Anglesey, close to junction 9 of the A55. Treborth is as old as the Faenol Estate, which dates from Tudor times. Treborth means a homestead and a ferry and was probably associated with one of the many ferries operating across the Straits. In the nineteenth century it became the site of the one of the greatest works of engineering of the railway age, the Britannia Bridge, and home to the hundreds of workers and their families.

Treborth is on the outskirts of the University City of Bangor with her restored Victorian pier, Port Penrhyn and beautiful Cathedral where Deiniol founded his monastic community in 525 AD.

Bangor has attracted visitors for centuries and it became the destination for day trippers from Liverpool from late Victorian times. To accommodate the many visitors arriving by sea on the daily pleasure steamers, one of the United Kingdom's longest surviving piers was built, which at its peak saw upwards of a quarter of a million visitors a year.


The pier is located on the western side of Hirael Bay and to the east is Port Penrhyn, which in the heyday of slate export saw ships waiting for cargoes bound for all nations and was probably the greatest of the Welsh slate ports. Both the pier and the port are listed buildings representing important aspects of our cultural and social heritage. Nowadays visitors can stroll along the pier to enjoy the scenery, enjoy home-baked scones at the cafe or even to have a go at fishing. Permits cost 2 pounds per day - bring your own rod. Crabbing lines and bait are 50p respectively.

Bangor has long been established as the gateway of North West Wales and was the staging post for coaches from London to Holyhead for travellers to Dublin. Bangor continues to occupy this position to the present day with the completion of Telford's Holyhead Road in 1826, the building of the Robert Stephenson's Chester to Holyhead railway, which reached Bangor in 1848 and the completion in recent years of the A55 North Wales Coast Road.