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Alice Liddell, the real Alice in Wonderland

But the Welsh connection runs much deeper – all the way back to 1861, when the eight year old Alice Pleasance Liddell (the real 'Alice' in Wonderland) spent the first of many summer holidays in Llandudno. Her holiday home ‘Penmorfa’, was built on Llandudno’s West Shore. The Liddells were close family friends with Charles Dodgson, who wrote the books under his more famous pen-name, Lewis Carroll.

It’s long been speculated that Carroll visited the Liddells at the holiday home they built here, and was inspired by Alice and her adventures in Llandudno.

The historical record is actually rather sketchy on this point, but this didn’t stop former Prime Minister David Lloyd George unveiling an iconic White Rabbit statue in 1933, and Llandudno has made the most of its Alice connection ever since, with a series of Wonderland Town Trails and a veritable army of statues and carved figures.