Rhoscolyn
Rhoscolyn is a village on Holy Island, which is just west of Anglesey and connected to it by road bridges. A monument found here suggests that the Romans regarded it as the western boundary of their empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Valley railway station and St Gwenfaen’s Well.
Valley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ansbaradigeidfran, Public domain.
Valley railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Valley in Anglesey, Wales. It is the last station before the western terminus of the North Wales Coast Line at Holyhead. It also serves the nearby RAF base.
St Gwenfaen’s Well
Spring
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Gwenfaen's Well is an early medieval holy well in the south west of Holy Island, Anglesey, named after St Gwenfaen, whose cloister was nearby. The site includes substantial remains of a building and is both a scheduled monument and a Grade II listed building.
Anglesey Airport
Aerodrome
Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, and which is also used as Anglesey Airport. Anglesey Airport is situated 2 miles east of Rhoscolyn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trearddur Bay and Valley.
Trearddur Bay
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trearddur or Trearddur Bay is a village, seaside resort and community south of Holyhead on the west coast of Holy Island off the north-west coast of Anglesey in Wales.
Valley
Photo: Craig Sunter, CC BY 2.0.
Valley is a village, community, and former electoral ward near Holyhead on the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales. The population during the 2001 census was 2,413, decreasing to 2,361 at the 2011 census.
Rhoscolyn
- Type: Locality
- Location: Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.2583° or 53° 15′ 30″ northLongitude
-4.5847° or 4° 35′ 5″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
9C5Q7C58+84GeoNames ID
7294083
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