Tŷ Coch Inn

Few pubs in Britain sit quite like this one: a low, red-doored inn wedged between the beach and the sea at Porthdinllaen, on the wild curl of the Llŷn Peninsula. There is no road to the door — you arrive across the headland or along the sand, which is precisely the point. On a fair day the tables spill onto the beach and a pint tastes better for the walk; on a wild one, the windows rattle and the fire feels earned. A place that rewards effort with something close to perfect.

Reachable only on foot and set right on the shoreline, Tŷ Coch is a bona fide pilgrimage pub — the kind of place people cross the country to reach and never stop talking about afterwards.

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