Menai Bridge

Post Code: LL59

Population: 3850

Property Profile: The size of the property market in LL59 is 2455 homes. Average property prices in this postcode district over the last twelve months have been approximately £184,000. The most readily available type of property in the area are Detached Houses, making up 48.6% of the total. Flats account for the lowest percentage of the housing stock in this district, at only 10.6%. There is much more vegitation in this part of the island and it is altogether prettier than the exposed south-west facing coast. On the other hand you don't get the sunset.

Description: Menai Bridge or Porthaethwy is a small town overlookink the Menai Strait and is probably most famous for the Menai Suspension Bridge built in 1826 by Thomas Telford. Menai Bridge occupies the area of the former parish of Llandysiliogogo, whose former church continues in use as a mortuary chapel.
The town has existed for many centuries and it still has a house in current use which dates from the 17th century. It is likely that a community has existed at the location of Menai Bridge since Roman times simply because this is the shortest crossing of the Strait. The town has a busy main street with shops restaurants and a selection of pubs. Even a Waitrose!