Red Wharf Bay

Red Wharf Bay, also known as Traeth Coch, is a village and a sandy bay in Anglesey, . The bay lies between the villages of and . It is also close to , thought to be the site of an Iron Age fort.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay in north Wales
  • Also known as: “Traeth Coch” and “Traeth Coch / Red Wharf Bay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Llyn Llwydiarth and St Dona’s Church.

Lake
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a lake.

Church
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Dona's Church, Llanddona ) is a small 19th-century parish church in the village of , in , north Wales. The first church on this site was built in 610.

Archaeological site
Photo: John S Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a post-medieval fish trap sited in , on the Isle of Anglesey. The fish weir is a scheduled monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Llanddona and Benllech.

Photo: Stephen Elwyn RODDICK, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village on the heel of , north of Beaumaris. It has a long sandy beach and is a budget beach resort, with lots of nearby camping and caravan sites.

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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.

Photo: Janet Huige, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.

Red Wharf Bay

Latitude
53.3059° or 53° 18′ 21″ north
Longitude
-4.174° or 4° 10′ 26″ west
Open location code
9C5Q8R4G+9C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1012911632
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2639523
Wiki­data ID
Q3405755
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Red Wharf Bay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Traeth Coch”
  • Cebuano: “Red Wharf Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Traeth Coch”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Traeth Coch”
  • Swedish: “Traeth Coch”
  • Welsh: “Traeth Coch”

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