Llys Rhosyr

PricingFreeFree for all visitors

Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

ParkingFree parkingFree for all visitors

No charge for anyone.

Parking details

Cadw names the nearest public car park, about 450 metres away on Church Street in Newborough. Isle of Anglesey County Council's record for the Church Street car park lists 26 spaces with no tariff, no PayByPhone code and no hours, and the council's car park finder shows it as a free car park, so the status is recorded as free. From the car park walk about 450 m south-west along Church Street, a quiet lane, past St Peter's church to the field gate of the court on the same lane. Grazing animals may be in neighbouring fields.

Driving pin: the Church Street car park at the north-east end of the lane near the A4080, 447 m from Cadw's marker on the monument; Cadw's own what3words point for the nearest car park is 11 m from it. By road: 0.3 miles south-west of Newborough, off the A4080. By rail: Bodorgan, 7 km, on the Shrewsbury to Holyhead line.

About

Llys Rhosyr, the court of Rhosyr, is the only court of the Welsh princes with visible remains that the public can visit, and the only undefended llys confirmed by excavation. It lies in a field on Church Street at the edge of Newborough, beside St Peter's church. The princes of Gwynedd held court here in the 13th century: digs from 1993 uncovered the stone footings of a hall 17 metres long, a chamber and other buildings inside a walled enclosure about 85 by 65 metres, with its entrance facing the village. First recorded in 1237, the court fell out of use early in the 14th century after Edward I founded Newborough on its lands in 1303. In 2018 the site was the model for Llywelyn's Court at St Fagans. Low consolidated walls stand in grass with gravelled floors, interpretation panels and a path round; the grass can be long in summer. Park at the Church Street car park and walk 450 metres down the lane.

Open in daylightFrom Cadw's published times

Open any reasonable time in daylight

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open all year during reasonable daylight hours; no admission charge. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather. Visitors in May and August 2026 found long grass hiding parts of the footings, with a clear path running round.

Terrain level 2, easy: a field with low consolidated walls, gravelled floors, interpretation panels and a bench; surfaces may be slippery or muddy. No toilets or facilities at the site. Drones are not permitted.

Dogs: Cadw: 'Dogs welcome. Dogs allowed on short leads.' An open-air, ground-level site; the site is on Cadw's dog-friendly days out list for north-west Wales.

Photo: The consolidated stone footings of the princes' court at Llys Rhosyr, Newborough, with gravelled floors in the grass and a farmhouse beyond. Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Llys_Rhosyr_(geograph_5222298).jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.