Borth

Borth is a village in Ceredigion. It lies on the coast 7 miles north of Aberystwyth.

Understand

The village is the quintessential British seaside resort, with mixed sand and stony beach, sea wall, pubs and shops selling plastic buckets and spades.

Get in

By train

• 🌍 Borth railway station. The Cambrian Line between Dovey Junction and Aberystwyth. (updated Nov 2016)

By car

The small B4353 goes through the village and connects to the A487 between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth.

By bus

There is an hourly bus service between Aberystwyth and Ynyslas via Borth on Monday-Saturday (no Sunday service)

Get around

See

• 🌍 Ynyslas. Large sandy beach and sand dunes on the Dyfi estuary. Small nature information hut open in summer. Parking on the sand, payment in peak season..  
• 🌍 Borth Animalarium. small zoo (updated Nov 2016)
• 🌍 Borth station museum (On the station platform). Sat/Tues/Thurs 11-4pm, Sundays/Bank holidays 12-4pm (subject to change). A museum of local railway artefacts, in the restored waiting room and booking office of Borth railway station. The museum is run by volunteers, and featured in the bilingual crime drama Hinterland/Y Gwyll. Free. (updated Apr 2017)

Do

• The beach.
• Walk along the cliff tops to Aberystwyth
• Borth and Ynyslas Golf Club. 

Buy

Eat

• 🌍 Victoria Inn, High St,, ☎ [phone]. (updated Nov 2016)

Drink

Sleep

There are a number of hotels and B&B in the village and a few caravan sites on the edge of town.

Connect

Go next

• Aberystwyth
• Aberdyfi