The town of Menai Bridge has been in existence  for  over  six hundred years. In the Fourteenth century, the small community of Porthaethwy  consisted mainly of farms and fisheries which were scattered around the church of St Tysilio on Church  Island.

By 1780, the volume of traffic crossing the Straits' by ferry had increased  and a great debate started to find an alternative.  In 1810, Thomas Telford was commissioned by Parliament to  report on  the best line for a road across North Wales and Anglesey  and for  a bridge to be built across the Menai. The construction  of the Bridge started in 1819 and finished in 1826.

During the Victorian age, the town developed as a popular  resort  on the coastal steamer route. Today, Menai Bridge is a centre for Marine  Studies  and is the gateway to the historic  island  of Anglesey.