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Llanfaethlu

Llanfaethlu is a village of 550 people on , . It is home to the only surviving working windmill on the island.
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  • Type: Village with 551 residents
  • Description: community and village in Anglesey, Wales
  • Also known as: “Llanfaethlu Community” and “Llanfaethly”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Capel Soar Standing Stone and St Maethlu’s Church.

Archaeological site
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is an archaeological site.

Church
Photo: Nigel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Maethlu's Church is a medieval church in the village of Llanfaethlu, , Wales. It is one of a number of churches in the parish and benefice of Bro Padrig, the appointed clergyman being the Reverend T.

House
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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 Rhydwyn.

Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small hamlet on the west coast of the Isle of near the village of Rhyd-wyn.

Hamlet
Photo: Dave Smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the community of , in the north west of , Wales. 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.

Hamlet
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also spelled Llanrhyddlad, is a hamlet in , in north-west Wales. It is located in the community of , 5 miles from , 142 miles from and 225 miles from .

Llanfaethlu

Latitude
53.3511° or 53° 21′ 4″ north
Longitude
-4.5334° or 4° 32′ 0″ west
Population
551
Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)
Open location code
9C5Q9F28+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7403307516
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2644087
Wiki­data ID
Q2910205
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Llanfaethlu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لانفيتلو”
  • Basque: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Breton: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланфаетхлу”
  • Catalan: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Cebuano: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Chinese: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Cornish: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Dutch: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لانفيتلو”
  • French: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Irish: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Persian: “لنفتلو”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Swedish: “Llanfaethlu”
  • Welsh: “Cymuned Llanfaethlu”
  • Welsh: “Llanfaethlu”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Llanfaethlu”. Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.