Amlwch
Amlwch is a port town and community in Wales.
Amlwch is a port town and community in Wales. It is situated on the north coast of the Isle of Anglesey, on the A5025 which connects it to Holyhead and to Menai Bridge. As well as Amlwch town and Amlwch Port, other settlements within the community include Burwen, Bull Bay (Porthllechog) and Pentrefelin. The town has a beach in Llaneilian, and it has significant coastal cliffs. Tourism is an important element of the local economy. At one time it was a booming mining town that became the centre of a vast global trade in copper ore. The harbour inlet became a busy port and significant shipbuilding and ship repair centre, as well as an embarkation point with boats sailing to the Isle of Man and to Liverpool. The community covers an area of about 15 square kilometres.
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Worth seeing in and around Amlwch
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Parys Mountain
Parys Mountain is located south of the town of Amlwch in north east Anglesey, Wales. Originally known as Trysclwyn, the high ground is reputed to have gained its current name when it was given to Robert Parys, Chamberlain of North Wales by Henry IV. It is the site of a large copper mine that was extensively exploited in the late 18th century.
1.9 km · hill (147m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia - 02Point Lynas Lighthouse
Point Lynas Lighthouse is located on a headland in Llaneilian Community, on the north-east corner of Anglesey in North Wales. A pilot station was established on the point in 1766, to guide ships entering and leaving Liverpool, with an associated lighthouse added in 1779.
3.6 km · lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Anglesey, Wales; on Point Lynas, 1km approx N of Llaneilian · Wikipedia - 03St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo
St Gwenllwyfo's Church is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Dulas, in Anglesey, Wales. It was built between 1854 and 1856 to replace an earlier church in the parish, also dedicated to St Gwenllwyfo, which needed repair and had become too small for its congregation.
4.5 km · church in Anglesey, UK · Wikipedia - 04Parys Mountain Windmill
Parys Mountain Windmill is a Grade II listed building located on the highest point of Parys Mountain near Amlwch, Anglesey, Wales. The structure was built in 1878 to assist a local copper mine in the removal of water from mine shafts.
2 km · Grade II listed building in Anglesey · Wikipedia - 05St Peirio's Church
St Peirio's Church is a small disused medieval church, in Rhosbeirio, Anglesey, north Wales. It is unclear when a church was first established on this site, although it has been said that this happened in about 605.
5.4 km · church in Rhosbeirio, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia - 06Mynydd Eilian
Mynydd Eilian, sometimes also referred as Mynydd Llaneilian, is a hill in Anglesey, Wales.
2.9 km · hill (177m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia - 07Amlwch Lighthouse
The Amlwch Lighthouse is a lighthouse tower situated on the outer pier of Amlwch, at the northeast tip of Anglesey, Wales. The existing lighthouse, a square tower erected in 1853, is the fourth on this site.
1.2 km · lighthouse at Amlwch, in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia - 08Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride
Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride is a Roman Catholic church in Amlwch, a town on the island of Anglesey, north Wales. It was built in the 1930s to a design by an Italian architect, Giuseppe Rinvolucri, using reinforced concrete.
900 m · Roman Catholic church in Amlwch, in Anglesey, north-west Wales, and Grade II* listed church building · Wikipedia - 09St Mary's Church, Bodewryd
St Mary's Church, Bodewryd is a small medieval church in the hamlet of Bodewryd, in Anglesey, north Wales. The date of construction is unknown, but there was a church on this site in 1254 and the earliest feature to which a date can be given is a doorway in a 15th-century style dating to around 1500.
4.8 km · church in Bodewryd, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia - 10Llanbadrig - Dinas Gynfor
Llanbadrig - Dinas Gynfor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Anglesey, North Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since January 1957 in an attempt to protect its fragile geological elements.
5.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Copper Kingdom Centre
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Where to eat
- 01Trecastell Hotel
Bull Bay,.
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Getting to Amlwch
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 78 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 99 km · Dublin (DUB), 127 km
- Stations
- Rhosgoch railway station, 4.7 km · Amlwch railway station, 500 m
- Liverpool → Amlwch91 km · quickest by road, 3h · £13–17
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Amlwch140 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £17–23
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Amlwch190 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · £23–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Amlwch
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Amlwch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHolyhead's status as an international ferry terminal means it is served by direct trains to Chester and London.
- Get inNational Express and Arriva from across the UK to Holyhead Ferry port at Holyhead with a regular service from Dublin and Dun Laoghaire
- Get aroundThe A55 cuts straight across the island parallel to the old A5 route, providing a quick route to Holyhead ferry port.
- Get aroundFairly easy 130-mile (200-km) walking trail around this island off the northwest corner of Wales, with diverse coastal scenery which is 95% within the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and 20 attractive villages en route.
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