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Llanfechell

Llanfechell is a village in Anglesey, Wales.

The place

Llanfechell is a village in Anglesey, Wales. It is the largest of several small villages and dispersed settlements that make up Mechell Community Council area. Until 1984, Llanfechell was a community itself. It is 11 miles (18 km) east of Holyhead, and 5.6 miles (9 km) west of Amlwch, in the north of the island.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanfechell

7 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.

    3.4 km · hill (170m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St 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.

    2.1 km · church in Rhosbeirio, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St 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.

    3 km · church in Bodewryd, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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
  5. 05
    Plas Bodewryd

    Plas Bodewryd is a Grade II* listed privately owned country house in Bodewryd, Anglesey, which was owned by the Wynne family until 1755 then the Lords Stanley of Alderley until the 20th century.

    2.9 km · Grade II* listed privately owned country house in Bodewryd, Anglesey · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Mechell's Church

    St Mechell's Church is a medieval church in the village of Llanfechell, Anglesey, Wales. The building dates from the 12th century and was rebuilt in the mid to late 19th century.

    300 m · church in Llanfechell, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Padrig's Church

    St Padrig's Church is a medieval church in the village of Llanbadrig, Anglesey, Wales. The building probably dates from the 12th century and underwent renovations in the 19th century.

    3.7 km · church in Llanbadrig, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia

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Getting to Llanfechell

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 78 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 106 km · Dublin (DUB), 120 km
  • Liverpool → Llanfechell
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £14–18
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Llanfechell
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £18–24
  • Belfast → Llanfechell
    165 km · quickest by road, 7h 18m · £28–37
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llanfechell

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 Llanfechell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Anglesey, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    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

    352 km

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Around it

Next door to Llanfechell

  • Cemaesvillage in Anglesey, Wales2.3 km
  • Llanbadrigvillage and community in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.6 km
  • Mechellcommunity in Anglesey, Wales, UK500 m
  • Bodewrydvillage in Anglesey, Wales2.4 km
  • Caimvillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK3.4 km
  • Carreglefnvillage in Anglesey, Wales, UK2.2 km