It depends on the kind of attack launched against the UK. If it was a tactical strike, you could expect RAF Valley to be hit in North Wales. Depending on the kind of nukes used to attack it, North Wales might get away with relatively little fallout. The likelihood though is that for the UK to be attacked, it would mean that a massive strategical strike against all of NATO was underway. In that scenario, population centers and key civilian infrastructures would also be targeted.
The deepwater harbour at Holyhead would become a target, along with the Wylfa nuclear power station. The industrial areas of the Dee Valley would be taken out, as would Liverpool and Birkenhead. Chester would probably be targeted in a strategic strike, Crewe certainly would. Warrington would be hit for its telecoms hub, the Greater Manchester area would be toast. British Army bases in Northern Ireland, along with Belfast could expect to be hit too.
Whilst many of the targets wouldn't be in North Wales itself, bearing in mind that Cardiff would certainly be hit along with South Wales' large industrial areas, North Wales would find itself completely surrounded by detonations from the North, South, East and West. Regardless of the prevailing wind directions, even North Wales would find itself blanketed by radioactive fallout...the highland, mountainous areas included.
The thing to bear in mind is that ICBMs these days carry more than one warhead. They are hundreds of times more powerful than the fire crackers that were dropped on Japan, thus throwing much more material up into the atmosphere. As far as the UK is concerned, unless you have a serious bunker with air filtration systems and a hell of a lot of food already stored, there would be no escape. Our land mass is just too small and our mainland targets are too numerous.
Tactical strike, maybe. Strategical strike, we're all screwed. Even if you had a good, strong bunker, surviving a strategical strike on the UK as a civilian would just be the beginning of a hellish nightmare. Nothing, but nothing on the UK mainland would be untouched by the massive levels of radioactive fallout. If you're out in the rural areas, the land, water and any surviving livestock would all be poisoned. There would be no transport, no fuel, no heating, no running water, no electricity, no medical care. Once your stored supplies run out, where do you go then? How do you get there? What would you find when you did get there? Take every Armageddon and doomsday film you've ever seen...the reality would be much, much worse.
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