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Here’s where the Victorian days come alive, lured longest cable-car ride. Excursion buses also take tour-
by rental deckchairs, Professor Codman’s outdoor ists from the promenade to the top of the Orme.
Punch & Judy Show, the oldest in Britain, donkey rides Along the way, the cable-pulled tram goes by the
on the sand, and live music at the bandshell in the Great Orme Bronze Age Mines, with its 4,000-year-
summer season. old caverns. The tourist attraction is the largest known
The pier offers a country-fair assortment of games prehistoric mine in the world. Here, copper was king
and activities, along with a donut shop and other and the production has been traced on Bronze Age
places to eat, with ice cream the prime attraction. items throughout Europe.
A short walk from the west end of the promenade The views across the sea from the Orme summit,
begins the Great Orme, a limestone headland rising to where there’s a gift shop, pub and restaurant, are
679 feet above the coast. To reach the top – a popular stunning and stretch from the plains of Anglesey to
hiking ground called the Great Orme Country Park – the west to the Wirral Peninsula in England to the
choose between a tramway built in 1902 or Britain’s east. Families gather at a playground, while others

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