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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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Wahrzeichen, Museen, Parks und Aussichtspunkte in der Gegend und ihrer Umgebung.
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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Trinity House lighthouse first lit in 1809 on an islet off Holy Island, automated in 1983; seen from the cliffs.
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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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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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 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 in Holyhead with exhibitions, films, live broadcasts, theatre and music, plus a kitchen and shop.
Seaside village and resort south of Holyhead on the west coast of Holy Island, on the Anglesey Coastal Path.
Most southerly settlement on Holy Island, with the medieval St Gwenfaen's Well a little to the west of the village.
Clifftop cross-shaped passage tomb with rare decorated stones, between Rhosneigr and Aberffraw; Cadw.
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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