The Copper Mill

We are Teresa & Rheinallt, the owners / custodians of Min y Don. Min y Don is our home, from which we run a six bedroom guest house with all six guest bedrooms sharing the same view over three floors (all sea facing double / king or suite rooms). We also run a licensed 40 cover restaurant - The Copper Mill.

Min y Don stands on a very historic site - the original building stood here well before Llandudno town was developed by the Victorians as a tourist destination. The building originally served as the water wheel-house for the "New Mine" copper ore mill (thus the restaurant name) - its 15 foot water wheel powering the crushing mill for the copper ore mined from the Great Orme's newly discovered copper ore streams. The Great Orme has produced copper ore for 3,500 years - perhaps longer, but the "new mines" were developed in the early 1800's. There is an access shaft 30 meters from our doorstep and we are members of the Great Orme Exporation Society (GOES).