Deganwy, Wales

I didn’t spend a lot of time in Deganwy, in fact I wasn’t even intending to visit it at all, I just walked along Llandudno’s West Shore Beach and kept on going until I’d reached the town.

You can get another view of Conwy Castle from here, overlooking the estuary where the River Conwy flows into Conwy Bay and the Irish Sea. Deganwy, like Conwy and Llandudno, was a popular tourist destination for the Victorians.

There were some interesting sites around the town. This shelter is a refurbishment of an elegant looking shelter that was built in 1904 but damaged by a severe storm in 2014.

Also across from Deganwy is Conwy Mountain at the top of which is an iron age fort.

Also of interest is that it was here in 1942 that Hugh Iorys Hughes designed some of the proptypes for the Mulberry Harbours used in the D-Day invasion in 1944. They were temporary portable harbours that facilitated the quick offloading of cargo onto the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy. Hundreds of workers were billeted at Deganwy to work on the project.