Holyhead & Holy Island: Holyhead town and harbour from above, with Holyhead Mountain behind

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Holyhead & Holy Island: things to do

Places worth your time in Holyhead & Holy Island

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Things to do in Holyhead & Holy Island

Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.

Nature reserve

RSPB South Stack and Ellin's Tower

Heath and sea cliffs where guillemots, razorbills and puffins breed in spring and choughs fly all year; viewpoint at Ellin's Tower.

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Lighthouse

South Stack Lighthouse

Trinity House lighthouse first lit in 1809 on an islet off Holy Island, automated in 1983; seen from the cliffs.

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Country park

Holyhead Breakwater Country Park

Former quarry that supplied the stone for Holyhead Breakwater, opened as a park in 1990, with a lake, café and paths to Holyhead Mountain.

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Hill and hillfort

Holyhead Mountain and Caer y Twr

Highest point on Anglesey, topped by an Iron Age hillfort with ramparts up to 3 m high and a late Roman watchtower site.

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Church and Roman fort

St Cybi's Church and Caer Gybi

Grade I listed medieval church inside the walls of Caer Gybi, a small 3rd-century Roman fort in the town centre.

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Museum

Holyhead Maritime Museum

Museum in an old lifeboat station with ship models, shipwreck stories and a Second World War air raid shelter; open Easter to October.

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Arts centre

Ucheldre Centre

Arts centre in Holyhead with exhibitions, films, live broadcasts, theatre and music, plus a kitchen and shop.

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Beach and village

Trearddur Bay

Seaside village and resort south of Holyhead on the west coast of Holy Island, on the Anglesey Coastal Path.

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Village and coast

Rhoscolyn

Most southerly settlement on Holy Island, with the medieval St Gwenfaen's Well a little to the west of the village.

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Neolithic chambered tomb

Barclodiad y Gawres

Clifftop cross-shaped passage tomb with rare decorated stones, between Rhosneigr and Aberffraw; Cadw.

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Lagoon and shingle ridge

Cemlyn Nature Reserve

Shingle ridge and brackish lagoon on the north coast with a tern colony; walk on the seaward side from late April to August.

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Anglesey

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Beaumaris, Menai Bridge & the east

Edward I's last castle, Telford's bridge, Plas Newydd and Neolithic tombs along the Menai Strait

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Photo credits

Holyhead & Holy Island (area photo): 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
RSPB South Stack and Ellin's Tower: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
South Stack Lighthouse: Denis Egan, CC BY 2.0, source
Holyhead Breakwater Country Park: John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Holyhead Mountain and Caer y Twr: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
St Cybi's Church and Caer Gybi: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Holyhead Maritime Museum: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Ucheldre Centre: Mx. Granger, CC0, source
Trearddur Bay: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Rhoscolyn: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Barclodiad y Gawres: Rhion, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Cemlyn Nature Reserve: Jimfbleak at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
Beaumaris, Menai Bridge & the east: Ron Galliers, CC BY-SA 2.0, source

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