22 February 2022 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 12 minutesBoats in Holyhead Harbour © geograph.org.uk – Mat Fascione/cc-by-sa-2.0
Holyhead is a town in
Wales and a major
Irish Sea port serving
Ireland. It is also a
community and the
largest town in the
Isle of Anglesey county, with a population of 13,659 at the 2011 census. Holyhead is on
Holy Island, which is separated from Anglesey by the narrow
Cymyran Strait and was originally connected to Anglesey via the
Four Mile Bridge. In the mid-19th century,
Lord Stanley, a local philanthropist, funded the building of a larger
causeway, known locally as “The Cobb”, it now carries the
A5 and the
railway line. The
A55 dual carriageway runs parallel to the Cobb on a modern causeway.
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