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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 485 residents
- Description: village in Anglesey, in north-west Wales
- Also known as: “Llanwenfaen” and “Rhoscolyn Community”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Gwenfaen’s Well and The White Eagle Pub.
St Gwenfaen’s Well
Spring
Photo: Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Gwenfaen's Well is an early medieval holy well in the south west of Holy Island, Anglesey, named after St Gwenfaen, whose cloister was nearby. The site includes substantial remains of a building and is both a scheduled monument and a Grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trearddur Bay and Llanfair-yn-Neubwll.
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.
Llanfair-yn-Neubwll
Hamlet
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanfair-yn-Neubwll is a village and community on the Isle of Anglesey in the north west of Wales. The community includes the villages of Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn and Caergeiliog, and had a population of 1,688, increasing to 1,874 at the 2011 census. Llanfair-yn-Neubwll is situated 2 miles northeast of Rhoscolyn.
Four Mile Bridge
Village
Photo: alan smethurst, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Four Mile Bridge is a village spanning both sides of the Cymyran Strait in Wales, connecting Holy Island with Anglesey, and is approximately three miles southeast of Holyhead.
Rhoscolyn
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.249° or 53° 14′ 56″ northLongitude
-4.6005° or 4° 36′ 2″ westPopulation
485Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9C5Q69XX+JQOpenStreetMap ID
node 568346069OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2639442Wikidata ID
Q3401042
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Rhoscolyn” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Rhoscolyn”
- Breton: “Rhoscolyn”
- Catalan: “Rhoscolyn”
- Cebuano: “Rhoscolyn”
- Chinese: “Rhoscolyn”
- Cornish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Dutch: “Rhoscolyn”
- French: “Rhoscolyn”
- Irish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Italian: “Rhoscolyn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rhoscolyn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rhoscolyn”
- Spanish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Swedish: “Rhoscolyn”
- Welsh: “Cymuned Rhoscolyn”
- Welsh: “Rhoscolyn”
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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 “Rhoscolyn”. Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.