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It has quietly become the best place to eat on the island. Sosban and the Old Butchers holds a Michelin star on the High Street, with more good tables down towards the shore.

The Belgian Promenade runs from the town along the shore, built by wartime refugees, and Beaumaris and its castle lie four miles up the coast to the east.

The inn came before the bridge. The Cambria, down at the bottom of the town, was built in 1688 as the Porthaethwy Ferry House — the inn for people waiting to cross the Strait, or recovering from having crossed it. It is one of the oldest buildings in the town.

It changed its name more often than most. Over two centuries it was the Three Tuns, the Ferry, the Borth Ferry House, the Borth, the Borth Hotel, the Bangor Ferry and the Red Lion, before settling as the Cambria Inn in the middle of the nineteenth century.

There was a passenger trade here before the bridge as well. A packet service was running between Liverpool and Porthaethwy by 1822, four years before the bridge opened — which is why a town this size had inns in it at all.

The Victoria went up around 1840, and unlike the Cambria it was built as a hotel from the start. It is Grade II listed now, cited as a good example of a purpose-built mid-nineteenth-century hotel that has kept its original character.

One family ran it for forty-three years, until 2021. It changed hands in January 2022, was substantially refurbished, and reopened that April.

The Cambria still stands at the bottom of the town, but it is a private house now, so it is one to walk past rather than into. It has been there for well over three hundred years.