Porth yr Afon
Porth yr Afon is a bay in Wales, United Kingdom.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include South Stack and Holyhead Railway Station.
South Stack
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
South Stack is an island connected by a bridge to Holy Island which is part of the island of Anglesey. It is also the name given to the land adjacent to the island.
Holyhead Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Randwick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holyhead railway station serves the Welsh town of Holyhead on Holy Island, Anglesey. The station is the western terminus of the North Wales Main Line 105+1⁄2 miles west of Crewe and is managed by Transport for Wales Rail.
Salt Island
Islet
Salt Island is joined to Holy Island, Anglesey, in North Wales. It is a natural provider of shelter for the town's Old Harbour from the Irish Sea and is part of the Port of Holyhead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holyhead and Trearddur Bay.
Holyhead
Photo: Joadl, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
Holyhead is a small port town on Holy Island, which is narrowly separated from the larger island of Anglesey, 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.
Trearddur Bay
Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trearddur or Trearddur Bay is a village, seaside resort and community south of Holyhead on the west coast of Holy Island off the north-west coast of Anglesey in Wales.
Rhoscolyn
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhoscolyn is a village on Holy Island, which is just west of Anglesey and connected to it by road bridges. A monument found here suggests that the Romans regarded it as the western boundary of their empire.
Porth yr Afon
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.2798° or 53° 16′ 47″ northLongitude
-4.6291° or 4° 37′ 45″ westOpen location code
9C5Q79HC+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 3714261074OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include World War II Pillbox and Trearddur Bay Hotel.
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