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Cylch-y-Garn

Cylch-y-Garn is a community in Anglesey, Wales, located on the north west coast of the county, 9.0 miles (14.5 km) west of Amlwch, 12.5 miles (20.1 km) north east of Holyhead and 15.0 miles (24.1 km) north west of Llangefni.

The place

Cylch-y-Garn is a community in Anglesey, Wales, located on the north west coast of the county, 9.0 miles (14.5 km) west of Amlwch, 12.5 miles (20.1 km) north east of Holyhead and 15.0 miles (24.1 km) north west of Llangefni. It includes the villages of Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Llanrhyddlad and Rhydwyn, plus Llanrhwydrys, Caerau and Cemlyn. the north west tip of the island at Carmel Head, and the offshore islands of the Skerries and West Mouse. At the 2001 census the community had a population of 675, increasing to 758 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cylch-y-Garn

9 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.

  1. 01
    Mynydd y Garn

    Mynydd y Garn is a hill in the northwest of the Isle of Anglesey in north Wales. Its 170 m high summit is crowned by a trig point and a stone obelisk.

    2.1 km · hill (170m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy is a medieval parish church in the north-west of Anglesey, north Wales. The date of foundation of the church, which is in the village of Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, is unknown, but the oldest parts date from the 11th or 12th century.

    400 m · church in Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cemlyn Bay and lagoon

    Cemlyn Bay is a bay on the northwest coast of Anglesey, North Wales, approximately 2.5 km west of Wylfa nuclear power station, within the community of Cylch-y-Garn. Separated from the bay by a shingle beach is a brackish lagoon, which is fed by a number of small streams.

    2.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Carreglwyd

    Carreglwyd is a Georgian country house, on the northwest of the Isle of Anglesey, about 1 km NW of Llanfaethlu in Wales, at grid reference SH309878. "Carreglwyd" is Welsh for "grey rock", with lwyd being the soft mutation of llwyd.

    3.2 km · building in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Rhwydrys's Church

    St Rhwydrys's Church is a medieval church near the village of Cemlyn on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The building dates from the mid-12th century and underwent renovations in the 19th century.

    2.7 km · church in Llanrhwydrys, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Maethlu's Church

    St Maethlu's Church is a medieval church in the village of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales. It is one of a number of churches in the parish and benefice of Bro Padrig, the appointed clergyman being the Reverend T. J. Jones.

    3.7 km · church in Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Glegir Mawr

    Clegir Mawr is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the community of Cylch-y-Garn in the north-west of the island of Anglesey, Wales. It is a stony coastal headland with an area just under 10 hectares and has been designated principally because of the occurrence of the spotted rock-rose which is a nationally rare plant and also the county flower of Anglesey.

    2.8 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Henborth

    Henborth is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Anglesey, North Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since October 1989 in an attempt to protect its fragile geological elements.

    2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Fflewin's Church

    St Fflewin's Church, Llanfflewin is a small rural church, situated by a farm in Anglesey, Wales. The first church on the site is said to have been built by St Fflewin in 630, but the present building has no structural features dating from before the 18th century, although the church has a font from the 14th or 15th century and part of an inscribed medieval gravestone has been reused in a window sill.

    2.9 km · church in Llanfflewin, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cylch-y-Garn

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 78 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 111 km · Dublin (DUB), 116 km
  • Castletown → Cylch-y-Garn
    77 km · quickest by road, 9h 49m · $33–45
  • Liverpool → Cylch-y-Garn
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £14–19
  • Dublin → Cylch-y-Garn
    114 km · quickest by ferry, 5h 4m · €41–101
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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 Cylch-y-Garn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIrish Ferries and Stena Line sail several times a day from Dublin, taking 3 hr 30 min.
  • Get inFerries no longer sail from Dún Laoghaire, as Dublin harbour has been upgraded, with a motorway link to bypass the city traffic.

From Wikivoyage: Holyhead, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    246 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    247 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    282 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    300 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    348 km

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