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Pont-Hwfa

Pont-Hwfa is a village in the community of Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, which is 140.8 miles (226.6 km) from Cardiff and 227.5 miles (366.1 km) from London.

The place

Pont-Hwfa is a village in the community of Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, which is 140.8 miles (226.6 km) from Cardiff and 227.5 miles (366.1 km) from London.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pont-Hwfa

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.

  1. 01
    Holyhead Mountain

    Holyhead Mountain is the highest point on Holy Island, Anglesey, and in the county of Anglesey, north Wales. It lies about two miles west of the town of Holyhead, and slopes steeply down to the Irish Sea on two sides.

    2.1 km · hill (220m) on Anglesey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    South Stack Lighthouse

    The South 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 dangerous rocks below.

    3.6 km · lighthouse on South Stack, in Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Cybi's Church

    St Cybi's Church is a medieval church near the Roman Caer Gybi in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. The church was Grade I listed in January 1968.

    900 m · mediaeval church in Holyhead, Anglesey, in north Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Eglwys y Bedd

    Eglwys y Bedd is all that remains of a 14th-century church in Anglesey, north Wales. It is set within the churchyard of St Cybi's, Holyhead, and may have been built on the site where Cybi lived and ministered.

    800 m · church in Anglesey, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ucheldre Centre

    The Ucheldre Centre is an arts centre located in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.

    500 m · grade II listed building in Holyhead · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Elin's Tower

    Elin's Tower is a Victorian stone tower on Holy Island, located around 2+1⁄2 miles west of Holyhead. The castellated folly, which was originally used as a summer house, was built between 1820 and 1850 for the notable Stanley family from Penrhos.

    3.3 km · tower on Holy Island, Anglesey · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Holyhead Maritime Museum

    The Holyhead Maritime Museum is a maritime museum located in Holyhead, North Wales. Housed in what is claimed to be the oldest lifeboat station in Wales (built c.

    900 m · maritime museum in Holyhead, North Wales, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse

    The Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse stands on the Holyhead Breakwater outside the Welsh port of Holyhead, Anglesey.

    2.8 km · lighthouse at Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holyhead Mail Pier Lighthouse

    Holyhead Mail Pier or Admiralty Pier Lighthouse on Salt Island, Anglesey, is an inactive lighthouse which was designed by the civil engineer John Rennie in 1821. It was built in the early 19th century to help guide shipping into the newly constructed harbour, now known as the Port of Holyhead, which acted as the terminus for the packet service between England and Ireland.

    1.7 km · lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Holyhead, Wales; at the E end of Admiralty Pier · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Celtic Gateway

    The Celtic Gateway is a stainless steel pedestrian and cycle bridge located in Anglesey, Wales. It was officially opened on 19 October 2006 by Andrew Davies AM. The bridge was built to better connect Holyhead's railway station and ferry terminal with the town centre for pedestrians and cyclists.

    1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · 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.

Go there

Getting to Pont-Hwfa

Airports
Isle of Man (IOM), 86 km · Dublin (DUB), 108 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 119 km
Stations
Holyhead railway station, 1 km · Port of Holyhead, 1.1 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pont-Hwfa

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 Pont-Hwfa. 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
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    237 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    254 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    288 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    305 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    339 km

If you know how people move in Pont-Hwfa – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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