Rhoscolyn

Rhoscolyn is a village on Holy Island, which is just west of and connected to it by road bridges. A monument found here suggests that the Romans regarded it as the western boundary of their empire.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Valley railway station and St Gwenfaen’s Well.

Railway station
Photo: Ansbaradigeidfran, Public domain.
is a railway station that serves the village of in , Wales. It is the last station before the western terminus of the North Wales Coast Line at , and is sited 260 miles 9 chains from , measured via .

Spring
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Gwenfaen's Well is an early medieval holy well in the south west of , 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.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, OGL.
Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley is a Royal Air Force station on the island of , Wales, which is also used as . is situated 2 miles east of Rhoscolyn.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trearddur Bay and Valley.

Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trearddur or is a village, seaside resort and community south of on the west coast of off the north-west coast of in .

Photo: Craig Sunter, CC BY 2.0.
is a village, community, and former electoral ward near on the west coast of , North . The population during the 2001 census was 2,413, decreasing to 2,361 at the 2011 census.

Rhoscolyn

Latitude
53.2583° or 53° 15′ 30″ north
Longitude
-4.5847° or 4° 35′ 5″ west
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Open location code
9C5Q7C58+84
Geo­Names ID
7294083
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