Places to explore in DenbighshireWales · North Wales

Northern end of the Clwydian Range and start of the Offa's Dyke Path, with limestone heath and coastal views above Prestatyn.

Walk the outline of a whole nation — 870 miles of cliff, estuary and beach from Chepstow round to Queensferry.

1400 km · spans 16 counties

Market town on the River Dee, home to the International Musical Eisteddfod, a steam railway and the terminus of the Llangollen Canal.

Denbighshire

Historic market town in the Vale of Clwyd with a medieval street plan, timber-framed buildings and independent shops around St Peter's Square.

Denbighshire

Line of Carboniferous limestone crags and screes, the Seven Sisters, running for around 7km above the Eglwyseg Valley near Llangollen.

Thomas Telford's curving 1808 weir on the River Dee near Llantysilio, feeding the Llangollen Canal and part of the Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site.

Windswept mountain pass (Bwlch yr Oernant) carrying the A542 over Llantysilio Mountain, with a summit cafe and wide moorland views.

Medieval stone bridge over the River Dee at Llangollen, one of the traditional Seven Wonders of Wales.

Canal wharf above Llangollen offering horse-drawn boat trips along the Llangollen Canal towards the Horseshoe Falls.

Northern outlier of the Clwydian Range above Dyserth, carrying a large Iron Age hillfort overlooking the coast.

Victorian former county prison in Ruthin, open as a museum of prison life.

Wooded vale at the head of the Eglwyseg Valley beneath towering limestone cliffs, reached by a narrow lane and a ford.