Llandudno: The Great Orme Tramway and the Longest Pier in Wales

Llandudno was being called the Queen of the Welsh Watering Places by 1861. It lies below the Great Orme, a limestone headland 207m high with herds of wild Kashmiri goats descended from a pair the Shah of Persia gave Queen Victoria. The Great Orme Tramway, opened in 1902 and 1903, is the only cable-hauled street tramway left in Britain and still runs its original cars; the pier of 1877 is 700m long, the longest in Wales. Alice Liddell's family holidayed here — the Alice of Wonderland, though the story itself was first told on the river at Oxford — which is why there is a White Rabbit in the town.