• Thumbnail for Holy Island, Anglesey
    Holy Island (Welsh: Ynys Gybi, 'the island of (Saint) Cybi') is an island on the western side of the larger Isle of Anglesey, Wales, from which it is separated...
    14 KB (1,343 words) - 10:32, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Penrhos, Anglesey
    Penrhos was a large estate on Holy Island, Anglesey, in north-west Wales. In 1553, during Edward VI's reign, Penrhos was granted to John-ap-Owen (also...
    5 KB (478 words) - 20:37, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anglesey
    It forms the bulk of the county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island (Ynys Gybi) and some islets and skerries. The county borders...
    79 KB (8,063 words) - 01:18, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Holyhead Mountain
    Holyhead Mountain (category Mountains and hills of Anglesey)
    and twr 'a heap, pile') is the highest point on Holy Island, Anglesey, and in the county of Anglesey, north Wales. It lies about two miles west of the...
    6 KB (539 words) - 13:43, 8 November 2023
  • Look up Holy Island in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Holy Island or Holy Isle may refer to: Holy Island, also known as Lindisfarne, Northumberland,...
    1 KB (167 words) - 13:49, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Salt Island, Anglesey
    Salt Island (Welsh: Ynys yr Halen) is joined to Holy Island, Anglesey, in North Wales. It is a natural provider of shelter for the town's Old Harbour from...
    5 KB (656 words) - 22:13, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for South Stack Lighthouse
    South Stack Lighthouse (category Lighthouses in Anglesey)
    Stack Lighthouse is built on the summit of a small island off the north-west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It was built in 1809 to warn ships of the...
    3 KB (239 words) - 15:36, 3 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Holyhead
    Holyhead (redirect from Holy Head)
    county of Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Holyhead is on Holy Island, bounded by the Irish Sea to the north, and is separated from Anglesey island by the narrow...
    32 KB (3,220 words) - 13:33, 29 January 2025
  • Caribbean islands by area List of European islands by population List of islands by area List of islands by population The Canary Islands is not considered...
    35 KB (208 words) - 10:27, 6 February 2025
  • islands such as Sully Island but not locations such as Shell Island which, though they are termed islands, are peninsulas. Holy Island and Anglesey are...
    8 KB (406 words) - 21:01, 16 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for South Stack
    South Stack (category Islands of Anglesey)
    (Welsh: Ynys Lawd) is an island situated just off Holy Island on the northwest coast of Anglesey, Wales. South Stack is an island known as a sea stack. It...
    9 KB (905 words) - 15:05, 9 November 2024
  • energy project located in the Irish Sea just off the west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It is being developed by the social enterprise agency Menter...
    17 KB (1,710 words) - 17:36, 8 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Holy Island Group
    Holy Island Group is a sequence of metasedimentary rocks of Cambro-Ordovician (Furongian to Tremadocian) age found in northern and western Anglesey and...
    4 KB (217 words) - 08:02, 3 November 2020
  • Thumbnail for Porth Dafarch
    Porth Dafarch (category Coast of Anglesey)
    is a small bay on the west coast of Anglesey in North Wales. The inlet is on the west side of Holy Island, Anglesey about 2 mi (3.2 km) southwest of Holyhead...
    6 KB (589 words) - 10:49, 1 August 2023
  • Ynys Gybi (electoral ward) (category Holy Island, Anglesey)
    Gybi is an electoral ward in the west of Anglesey, Wales, created in 2012. It covers the most part of Holy Island, whose name is Ynys Gybi in Welsh. Ynys...
    6 KB (361 words) - 10:41, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhoscolyn
    located on Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It is just over five miles south of Holyhead and is the most southerly settlement on the island. The name Rhoscolyn...
    5 KB (631 words) - 22:37, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lizardite
    notable source of lizardite. Lizardite has been reported in Wales. At Holy Island, Anglesey lizardite has been found to be associated with antigorite. In the...
    10 KB (960 words) - 07:28, 5 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tidal island
    Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire Ynys Feurig off Anglesey Ynys Gifftan in Gwynedd Ynys Gwelltog off Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire Ynys Lochtyn on the coast of...
    10 KB (965 words) - 10:18, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency)
    represented by Llinos Medi of Plaid Cymru. The seat covers the isles of Anglesey and Holy Island. Incomes and house prices are slightly below average for the UK...
    81 KB (1,568 words) - 08:41, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Holyhead railway station
    Holyhead railway station (category Railway stations in Anglesey)
    Caergybi) serves the Welsh town of Holyhead (Welsh: Caergybi) on Holy Island, Anglesey. The station is the western terminus of the North Wales Main Line...
    12 KB (973 words) - 02:19, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Gwenfaen's Well
    St Gwenfaen's Well (category Scheduled monuments in Anglesey)
    and Welsh: Ffynnon Gwenfai) is an early medieval holy well in the south west of Holy Island, Anglesey, named after St Gwenfaen, whose cloister was nearby...
    12 KB (979 words) - 17:34, 10 November 2024
  • The geology of Anglesey, the largest (714 km2) island in Wales is some of the most complex in the country. Anglesey has relatively low relief, the 'grain'...
    20 KB (2,569 words) - 16:49, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for South Stack Formation
    South Stack Formation (category Geology of Anglesey)
    Progressive deformation of the South Stack and New Harbour Groups, Holy Island, Western Anglesey, North Wales. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol...
    3 KB (174 words) - 19:17, 11 April 2022
  • Mary's Well Bay, Cardiff Three Cliffs Bay Park, Swansea South Stack, Holy Island, Anglesey Stackpole Head, Pembrokeshire Dylife Gorge, near Machynlleth, Powys...
    3 KB (249 words) - 08:29, 4 July 2023
  • church at Rhoscolyn, on Holy Island, Anglesey. His brother was Gwyngeneu, who was also commemorated with a church on Holy Island that no longer exists....
    4 KB (500 words) - 01:10, 9 March 2020
  • Circles (Welsh: Cytiau Tŷ Mawr), a group of prehistoric dwellings on Holy Island, Anglesey Tŷ Mawr, Wrexham, country park in Wrexham County Borough Ty Mawr...
    610 bytes (120 words) - 06:40, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Four Mile Bridge
    Four Mile Bridge (category Villages in Anglesey)
    spanning both sides of the Cymyran Strait in Wales, connecting Holy Island with Anglesey, and is approximately three miles (5 km) southeast of Holyhead...
    3 KB (267 words) - 08:29, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dwynwen
    court life, Dwynwen withdrew to the small tidal island of Ynys Llanddwyn—off the southwest coast of Anglesey, near Newborough. There, she established a church...
    12 KB (1,204 words) - 22:01, 25 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Stanley Embankment
    Stanley Embankment (category Bridges in Anglesey)
    that crosses the Cymyran Strait in Wales, connecting the Island of Anglesey and Holy Island. It carries both the North Wales Main Line railway, which...
    4 KB (448 words) - 13:19, 13 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Rhoscolyn Lifeboat Station
    Rhoscolyn Lifeboat Station (category Buildings and structures in Anglesey)
    of Rhoscolyn, on the west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Anglesey Association for the Preservation of...
    12 KB (1,156 words) - 14:16, 10 January 2025