Swellies
The Swellies or Swillies is an area of treacherous water in the Menai Strait, Wales, most commonly referring to the stretch between the Britannia Bridge and the Menai Bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reach
- Description: section of the Menai Strait in North Wales
- Also known as: “Swillies” and “The Swellies”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Britannia Bridge and Ynys Gored Goch.
Britannia Bridge
Bridge
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Britannia Bridge is a bridge in Wales that crosses the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and city of Bangor. It was originally designed and built by the noted railway engineer Robert Stephenson as a tubular bridge of wrought iron rectangular box-section spans for carrying rail traffic.
Ynys Gored Goch
Islet
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Ynys Gored Goch, sometimes Ynys Gorad Goch, is a small island in the Menai Strait between Gwynedd and Anglesey in North Wales. It is situated in the stretch of the strait called the Swellies between Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge and Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge.
Menai Bridge
Bridge
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The Menai Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was one of the world's first major suspension bridges, and second such bridge designed to carry vehicular traffic, after the Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and Menai Bridge.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
Photo: Raphael Frey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, often shortened to Llanfairpwll and sometimes to Llanfair PG, is a village and community on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
Menai Bridge
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Menai Bridge is a town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west Wales. It overlooks the Menai Strait and lies by the Menai Suspension Bridge, built in 1826 by Thomas Telford, just over the water from Bangor.
Vaynol
Hamlet
Photo: Gareth Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vaynol or Y Faenol is a country estate dating from the Tudor period near Y Felinheli in Gwynedd, North Wales. It has 1,000 acres of park, farmland, and gardens, with more than thirty listed buildings, surrounded by a wall which is 7 miles long.
Swellies
- Categories: reach and body of water
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Swellies from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Swellies” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Pwll Ceris”
- Japanese: “スウェリーズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Swellies”
- Norwegian: “Swellies”
- Welsh: “Pwll Ceris”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Pwll Fanogl and Penrhosgarnedd.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Anglesey Arms and North West Wales NHS Trust.
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