Rhydwyn
Rhydwyn is a village in the community of Cylch-y-Garn, in the north west of Anglesey, Wales. Rhydwyn is named after a little stream that once crossed the centre of the village. "Rhyd" meaning Ford and "Wyn" white. It now runs through a culvert under the road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Anglesey, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Rhyd-wyn” and “Rhydwyn, Cylch-y-Garn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mynydd y Garn and St Maethlu’s Church.
Mynydd y Garn
Peak
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mynydd y Garn is a hill in the northwest of the Isle of Anglesey in north Wales. Its 170 m high summit is crowned by a trig point and a stone obelisk. Erected in 1897 it commemorates Sir William Thomas, ship-owner and one time High Sheriff of Anglesey.
St Maethlu’s Church
Church
Photo: Nigel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Maethlu's Church is a medieval church in the village of Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales. It is one of a number of churches in the parish and benefice of Bro Padrig, the appointed clergyman being the Reverend T.
Carreglwyd
House
Photo: David Seale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carreglwyd is a Georgian country house, on the northwest of the Isle of Anglesey, about 1 km NW of Llanfaethlu in Wales, at grid reference SH309878. "Carreglwyd" is Welsh for "grey rock", with lwyd being the soft mutation of llwyd.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Church Bay and Llanrhuddlad.
Church Bay
Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church Bay is a small hamlet on the west coast of the Isle of Anglesey near the village of Rhyd-wyn.
Llanrhuddlad
Hamlet
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanrhuddlad, also spelled Llanrhyddlad, is a hamlet in Anglesey, in north-west Wales. It is located in the community of Cylch-y-Garn, 5 miles from Holyhead, 142 miles from Cardiff and 225 miles from London. Until 1984, Llanrhuddlad was a community itself.
Llanfaethlu
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanfaethlu is a village of 550 people on Anglesey, Wales. It is home to the only surviving working windmill on the island.
Rhydwyn
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Cylch-y-Garn, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.37042° or 53° 22′ 14″ northLongitude
-4.53271° or 4° 31′ 58″ westElevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
9C5Q9FC8+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 2180344553OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rhydwyn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رايدواين كلاتش”
- Basque: “Rhydwyn”
- Breton: “Rhydwyn”
- Dutch: “Rhydwyn, Cylch-y-Garn”
- Dutch: “Rhydwyn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رايدواين كلاتش”
- French: “Rhydwyn”
- Irish: “Rhydwyn”
- Welsh: “Rhydwyn, Cylch-y-Garn”
- Welsh: “Rhydwyn”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Llanrhuddlad church and Swtan Museum, Anglesey.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rhydwyn”. Photo: Dave Smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.