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Porth y Pwll

Porth y Pwll is a bay in , .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include South Stack and Holyhead Railway Station.

Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an island connected by a bridge to Holy Island which is part of the island of . It is also the name given to the land adjacent to the island.

Railway station
Photo: Randwick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the Welsh town of 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.

Peak
Photo: Janine Forbes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the highest point on , and in the county of , north . It lies about two miles west of the town of , and slopes steeply down to the on two sides.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holyhead and Trearddur Bay.

Photo: Joadl, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
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.

Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Trearddur or is a village, seaside resort and community south of on the west coast of off the north-west coast of in .

Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on Holy Island, which is just west of 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 y Pwll

Latitude
53.2806° or 53° 16′ 50″ north
Longitude
-4.6373° or 4° 38′ 14″ west
Open location code
9C5Q79J7+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3714261076
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Dinas and Stanley Mill.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include World War II Pillbox and Trearddur Bay Hotel.

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