Rhoscolyn
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.
- Type: Village with 485 residents
- Description: village in Anglesey, in north-west Wales
- Also known as: “Cymuned Rhoscolyn”, “Llanwenfaen”, and “Rhoscolyn Community”
Places of Interest
Highlights: St Gwenfaen’s Well and The White Eagle Pub.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trearddur Bay and Llanfair-yn-Neubwll.
Llanfair-yn-Neubwll
Hamlet
Rhoscolyn
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.249° or 53° 14′ 56″ north
Longitude
-4.6005° or 4° 36′ 2″ west
Population
485
Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)
Open location code
9C5Q69XX+JQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Rhoscolyn” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Rhoscolyn”
- Breton: “Rhoscolyn”
- Catalan: “Rhoscolyn”
- Cebuano: “Rhoscolyn”
- Cornish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Dutch: “Rhoscolyn”
- French: “Rhoscolyn”
- Irish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Italian: “Rhoscolyn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rhoscolyn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rhoscolyn”
- Spanish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Swedish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Welsh: “Rhoscolyn”
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