South Stack
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Holyhead Mountain and South Stack Lighthouse.
Holyhead Mountain
Peak
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Holyhead Mountain is the highest point on Holy Island, Anglesey, and in the county of Anglesey, north Wales. It lies about two miles west of the town of Holyhead, and slopes steeply down to the Irish Sea on two sides.
South Stack Lighthouse
Lighthouse
The South Stack Lighthouse is built on the summit of a small island off the north-west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. It was built in 1809 to warn ships of the dangerous rocks below.
Elin’s Tower
Building
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Elin's Tower is a Victorian stone tower on Holy Island, located around 2+1⁄2 miles west of Holyhead. The castellated folly, which was originally used as a summer house, was built between 1820 and 1850 for the notable Stanley family from Penrhos.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holyhead and Penrhosfeilw.
Holyhead
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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.
Penrhosfeilw
Village
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Penrhosfeilw is a village in the community of Trearddur, Anglesey, Wales, which is 140.1 miles from Cardiff and 227.5 miles from London.
Porth-y-Felin
Suburb
Porth-y-Felin is an area of Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, which is 141 miles from Cardiff and 227.4 miles from London.
South Stack
- Type: Island
- Description: island on the northwest coast of Anglesey, Wales
- Categories: suspension bridge, footbridge, and landform
- Location: Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“South Stack” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Ynys Lawd”
- Cebuano: “South Stack”
- Chinese: “南栈岛”
- French: “South Stack”
- German: “South Stack”
- Italian: “South Stack”
- Livvi: “Ynys Lawd”
- Northern Sami: “Ynys Lawd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Stack”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Stack”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ynys Lawd”
- Norwegian: “South Stack”
- Polish: “South Stack”
- Romanian: “South Stack”
- Russian: “Саут-Стак”
- Russian: “Южный Стэк”
- Swedish: “South Stack”
- Welsh: “Ynys Lawd”
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