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Holyhead

Holyhead is a small port town on Holy Island, which is narrowly separated from the larger island of , in northwest Wales. The town includes a small medieval church on the site of a Roman fortress, and there is some seaside scenery nearby, but otherwise it has few sites of interest; it's mainly a transfer point for high-speed ferries that cross the Irish Sea to Dublin.
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  • Type: Town with 11,400 residents
  • Description: town in the county of Anglesey in Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Caergybi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holyhead Railway Station and Salt Island.

Railway station
Photo: Randwick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the Welsh town of Holyhead on . The station is the western terminus of the North Wales Main Line 105+1⁄2 miles west of and is managed by Transport for Wales Rail.

Islet
Photo: Cls14, CC BY 3.0.
is joined to , in . It is a natural provider of shelter for the town's Old Harbour from the and is part of the Port of Holyhead.

Arts center
The is an arts centre located in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trearddur Bay and Porth-y-Felin.

Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trearddur or is a village, seaside resort and community south of Holyhead on the west coast of off the north-west coast of in . The community includes the small settlement of and the Refail Farm estate.

Suburb
is an area of Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, which is 141 miles from and 227.4 miles from .

Village
Photo: Beep boop beep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in the community of , , Wales, which is 140.1 miles from and 227.5 miles from .

Holyhead

Latitude
53.3107° or 53° 18′ 38″ north
Longitude
-4.6331° or 4° 37′ 59″ west
Population
11,400
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
IATA airport code
HLY
United Nations Location Code
GB HLY
Open location code
9C5Q8968+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27581224
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646686
Wiki­data ID
Q257446
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Holyhead” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Holyhead”
  • Asturian: “Caergybi”
  • Basque: “Holyhead”
  • Bengali: “হলিহেড”
  • Breton: “Caergybi”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоулихед”
  • Catalan: “Caergybi”
  • Cebuano: “Holyhead”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھۆڵیھێد”
  • Chinese: “Holyhead”
  • Chinese: “霍利希德”
  • Cornish: “Caergybi”
  • Czech: “Holyhead”
  • Danish: “Holyhead”
  • Dutch: “Holyhead”
  • Esperanto: “Caergybi”
  • Esperanto: “Holyhead”
  • Estonian: “Holyhead”
  • Finnish: “Caergybi”
  • Finnish: “Holyhead”
  • French: “Holyhead”
  • Galician: “Caergybi”
  • German: “Holyhead”
  • Gujarati: “હોલીહેડ”
  • Hebrew: “הוליהד”
  • Icelandic: “Holyhead”
  • Indonesian: “Caergybi”
  • Indonesian: “Holyhead”
  • Irish: “Caergybi”
  • Italian: “Holyhead”
  • Japanese: “ホリーヘッド”
  • Kannada: “ಹೋಲಿಹೆಡ್”
  • Korean: “홀리헤드”
  • Latin: “Cubii Castrum”
  • Latvian: “Holiheda”
  • Lithuanian: “Holihedas”
  • Livvi: “Caergybi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Holyhead”
  • Northern Frisian: “Holyhead”
  • Northern Sami: “Caergybi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Holyhead”
  • Norwegian: “Holyhead”
  • Ossetian: “Холихед”
  • Persian: “هالی‌هد”
  • Persian: “هولیهد”
  • Polish: “Holyhead”
  • Portuguese: “Holyhead”
  • Russian: “Холихед”
  • Scots: “Caergybi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Caergybi”
  • Slovak: “Holyhead”
  • Slovenian: “Holyhead”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هولیهد”
  • Spanish: “Holyhead”
  • Swedish: “Holyhead”
  • Tamil: “ஹோலிஹிட்”
  • Telugu: “హోలీ హెడ్”
  • Ukrainian: “Голігед”
  • Urdu: “ہولی ہیڈ”
  • Urdu: “ہولیہیاد”
  • Võro: “Caergybi”
  • Welsh: “Caergybi”
  • Western Frisian: “Holyhead”
  • “Caergybi”

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