Anglesey once had over thirty working windmills and the island was known as the Granary of Wales. Some of them have been turned into homes...

Holyhead Maritime Museum is filled with interesting artefacts and documents that piece together the long and rich seafaring traditions of the area of North Wales....

The HMS Thetis should have been one of the world’s most impressive submarines but during its diving trials in the Liverpool Bay the stricken sub...

St Gwenfaen`s well lies on a spectacular stretch of coast path between Borthwen, near Rhoscolyn, and Rhoscolyn Head. It has one of the most well...

Walkers following the cliffs between Borthwen and Trearddur Bay may notice a low inscribed stone between White Arch (Bwa Gwyn) and Black Arch (Bwa Du)....

Accessible at low tide, Ynys y Fydlyn is a small, rocky island lying near a remote, shingle beach on the north-west coast of Anglesey. The...

This centre was purpose-built as a museum, art gallery and events space, and serves the local community well in this capacity. Visitors are invited...

Home of the Marquess of Anglesey, Plas Nweydd is situated on the bank of the Menai Strait with magnificent views of Snowdonia. This elegant...

Now a ruin, this once substantial sixteenth Century chapel was built on the site of an earlier shrine to Dwynwen, patron saint of lovers. In...

In the nineteenth Century Llanddwyn Island became an important point of navigation for ships carrying slate out of Bangor and through the Menai Strait. These...

In the fourteenth Century violent storms buried much of the coastline under sand dunes. The area now forms part of the National Nature Reserve and...

St Mary’s Church is located in the village with the longest place name in Britain -Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Translated to English the name means - "The church...

The archaeological site of Llys Rhosyr is easily missed by motorists on their way to Llandwyn Island. It is located at a bend in the...

Carmel Head is a beautiful, remote headland in north-west Anglesey. Many ships have wrecked on its underwater rocks and off-shore small islands. Two beacons known...

West of Menai Bridge is Robert Stephenson`s railway bridge built in the mid 19th Century when railways arrived in north Wales. The Britannia Bridge was...

The famous Menai Straits Bridge is an attraction in its own right. Thomas Telford’s chain bridge over the Menai Straits was completed in 1825 and...

Saint Tysilio, son of a king of Powys, came to Anglesey about 630 AD and founded his church on a small island in the Menai...

The Belgian Promenade forms part of a scenic walk beside the Menai Strait from the Menai Bridge to Church Island. It was built during the...

The Chester and Holyhead Railway developed the original site here in the mid 1840s. The gardens were laid out by Sir Joseph Paxton, the...

Porth Amlwch was only a tiny creek in the 18th Century, but after the development of the copper mines on nearby Parys Mountain the cove...