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Moelfre

Moelfre is a small village on the east coast of close to a collection of ancient sites, mostly Iron Age. It was a fishing village but the coast here is hazardous in nor'easterly weather, and there have been many shipwrecks.
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  • Type: Village with 710 residents
  • Description: community and village in Anglesey, Wales
  • Also known as: “Moelfre Community” and “Moelfre, Anglesey”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ynys Moelfre and Din Llugwy Romano-British Village.

Island
Photo: Rhion, Public domain.
is a small island off the coast of , Wales. At low tide it has a maximum length of 261 metres and a maximum width of 121 metres with a maximum area of 6.6 acres.

Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Din Lligwy hut circle is an ancient village site near the east coast of , close to the village of Moelfre, . Excavations in 1905–1907 produced hundreds of Roman-period pot sherds of the 3rd and 4th centuries CE, many repaired with iron clamps.

Archaeological site
Capel Lligwy is a ruined chapel near Rhos Lligwy in , north Wales, dating back to the first half of the 12th century. The chapel's original purpose is unknown, but it might have been used as a memorial chapel or in connection with a local royal court, or as a chapel of ease in a large parish with a growing population.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benllech and Marianglas.

Photo: ㇹヮィㇳ, CC BY 2.0.
is a village on the Isle of Anglesey in . It is in the community of , which has a population of 3,382. The name of village had been removed by the time of the 2011 census with the community being listed under Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf with the electoral ward being listed under Llanddyfnan.

Village
Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marian-glas or is a small village in , north-west . It lies between the larger villages of Moelfre and and just off the A5025.

Hamlet
Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village a mile from the coast of the island of . The community is in the community of Moelfre, , Wales, which is 136.4 miles from and 214.9 miles from . , contains a memorial to hundreds lost when the Royal Charter bound from Australia to Liverpool hit the nearby Moelfre rocks.

Moelfre

Latitude
53.3537° or 53° 21′ 13″ north
Longitude
-4.2366° or 4° 14′ 12″ west
Population
710
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MFR
Open location code
9C5Q9Q37+F9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 471614360
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2642391
Wiki­data ID
Q3397276
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Moelfre” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Moelfre”
  • Breton: “Moelfre”
  • Cebuano: “Moelfre”
  • Cornish: “Moelfre”
  • French: “Moelfre”
  • Irish: “Moelfre, Ynys Môn”
  • Irish: “Moelfre”
  • Italian: “Moelfre”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Moelfre”
  • Spanish: “Moelfre”
  • Swedish: “Moelfre, Anglesey”
  • Swedish: “Moelfre”
  • Welsh: “Cymuned Moelfre”
  • Welsh: “Moelfre, Ynys Môn”
  • Welsh: “Moelfre”

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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 “Moelfre”. Photo: Janet Huige, CC BY-SA 2.0.