Llaneilian
Llaneilian is a village and community in Anglesey, Wales.
Llaneilian is a village and community in Anglesey, Wales. It is located in the north east of the island, 2.2 miles (3.5 km) east of Amlwch, 16.5 miles (26.6 km) north west of Menai Bridge and 12.5 miles (20.1 km) north of Llangefni. The community includes the villages and hamlets of Dulas, Llaneilian, Pengorffwysfa, Cerrig Man and Penysarn, Gadfa and Nebo, and at the 2001 census had a population of 1,192, decreasing slightly to 1,186 at the 2011 Census. The parish is crowned by its hill, Mynydd Eilian, a HuMP, popular with walkers and ramblers, and its beach, Traeth Eilian, which is popular with holidaymakers and for watersport activities. At the north easternmost point is Point Lynas,, while Ynys Dulas lies off the North East coast of the island, east of Dulas Bay.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Llaneilian
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.
3.7 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.
1.1 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.
3.2 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.
3.7 km · Grade II listed building in Anglesey · Wikipedia - 05Mynydd Eilian
Mynydd Eilian, sometimes also referred as Mynydd Llaneilian, is a hill in Anglesey, Wales.
800 m · hill (177m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia - 06Amlwch 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.
2.6 km · lighthouse at Amlwch, in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia - 07Our 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.
3.7 km · Roman Catholic church in Amlwch, in Anglesey, north-west Wales, and Grade II* listed church building · Wikipedia - 08Melin Adda
Melin Adda is a windmill near Amlwch, Anglesey, which was built in the 1790s and closed down in 1912. The mill was turned into a house in the 1970s.
3.5 km · Grade II listed building in Anglesey. Set back from the N side of Ffordd Tanybryn, c200m due east of Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones in Pentrefelin. · Wikipedia - 09Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo
The Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo is a medieval ruined church near Dulas, in Anglesey, Wales, perhaps built in the 15th century to replace another church from which only the 12th-century font survived. Dedicated to Gwenllwyfo, a 7th-century female saint about whom nothing else is known, it was used as a chapel of ease for the church in Amlwch, about 5 miles away.
2.6 km · church in Anglesey, UK · Wikipedia - 10St Eleth's Church
St Eleth's Church, Amlwch is a parish church built in the Neo-classical style in 1800 in Amlwch, a town on the island of Anglesey in north Wales. It stands on the site of earlier buildings, with the first church here said to have been established by St Elaeth in the 6th century.
3.3 km · parish church in the Neo-classical style in Amlwch, in Anglesey in north Wales · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Llaneilian
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 78 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 96 km · Dublin (DUB), 130 km
- Stations
- Amlwch railway station, 3.3 km
- Castletown → Llaneilian77 km · quickest by road, 9h 31m · $31–43
- Liverpool → Llaneilian88 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £13–17
- Dublin → Llaneilian129 km · quickest by road, 5h 21m · €16–22
- 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 Llaneilian
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 Llaneilian. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 01247 km
- 02249 km
- 03283 km
- 04302 km
- 05363 km
If you know how people move in Llaneilian – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Llaneilian
- Amlwchtown and community in Anglesey, Wales3.3 km
- Penysarnvillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.6 km
- Pengorffwysfavillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK1 km
- Cerrig Manvillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.5 km
- Gadfavillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.9 km
- Nebohamlet in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.2 km