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

Luoghi principali

Things to do in Holyhead & Holy Island

Monumenti, musei, parchi e punti panoramici nella zona e nei dintorni.

Riserva naturale

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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Faro

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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Parco di campagna (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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Museo

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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Centro culturale

Ucheldre Centre

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

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Spiaggia e villaggio

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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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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Crediti fotografici

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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