Isle of Anglesey, Wales
Things to do on Anglesey
20 hand-picked beaches, adventures, restaurants, historic sites, and family days out — all within Ynys Môn's 125-mile coastline.
Newborough, Anglesey
Newborough Beach & Llanddwyn Island
One of Wales' finest beaches, stretching for miles along the southwestern tip of Anglesey through Newborough Warren nature reserve.
Rhosneigr, Anglesey
Rhosneigr Beach
A broad west-facing beach that catches the Atlantic swell and the steady south-westerlies that make it one of the UK's top kitesurfing and windsurfing spots.
Trearddur Bay, Holy Island
Trearddur Bay Beach
A sheltered horseshoe bay on Holy Island with clear turquoise water and a gently sloping sandy bottom that makes it one of Anglesey's safest swimming beaches.
Benllech, Anglesey
Benllech Beach
A classic seaside beach on Anglesey's east coast with a long stretch of golden sand backed by low cliffs and a small car park right at the dune edge.
Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey
Red Wharf Bay (Traeth Coch)
At low tide, Red Wharf Bay reveals one of the largest expanses of flat sand in Wales — over four miles of tidal flats where oystercatchers and curlews pick across the mud and the light turns extraordinary at dusk.
Beaumaris, Anglesey
Puffin Island Boat Trips
Seacoast Safaris runs RIB and rigid inflatable boat trips from Beaumaris Pier around Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol), a small uninhabited island at Anglesey's eastern tip that is home to cormorants, shags, guillemots, razorbills, and grey seals hauled out on the rocks.
Holy Island, Anglesey
Coasteering on Holy Island
Anglesey Outdoors and Môn Adventures both run guided coasteering sessions on the dramatic sea-cliff coastline of Holy Island, scrambling, swimming, and cliff-jumping through caves and channels cut into ancient volcanic rock.
Beaumaris, Anglesey
Sea Kayaking from Beaumaris
Celtic Paddlers and several other operators offer guided sea kayak sessions on the Menai Straits, one of the most beautiful stretches of sheltered tidal water in Wales, with views of Snowdonia rising above the treeline on the opposite shore.
Valley, Holy Island
Pleasure Flights from Anglesey Airport
Valley Flying Group and other light-aircraft operators at Anglesey Airport (IATA: VLY) offer scenic pleasure flights over the island, giving passengers a stunning aerial perspective of the coastline, Snowdonia, and on clear days the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland to the west.
Rhosneigr, Anglesey
Kitesurfing Lessons at Rhosneigr
Rhosneigr's consistent Atlantic winds and flat inshore water make it one of the premier kitesurfing schools in the UK, with Anglesey Watersports and several other BKSA-accredited schools operating from the beach year-round.
Rhosneigr, Anglesey
The Oyster Catcher Restaurant
Perched above the dunes at Rhosneigr with a large terrace that catches the evening sun and an unobstructed view west over the Atlantic, The Oyster Catcher has built a strong reputation for fresh local seafood, wood-fired pizza, and Anglesey-reared burgers.
Menai Bridge, Anglesey
Dylan's Restaurant, Menai Bridge
Dylan's occupies a beautifully converted building on the waterfront at Menai Bridge, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Menai Straits and the towers of the suspension bridge.
Moelfre, Anglesey
Ann's Pantry, Moelfre
A tiny café in the fishing village of Moelfre that has become famous across North Wales for its crab sandwiches — fresh brown and white crab from local boats, dressed simply with lemon and mayonnaise and served on thick-cut bread.
Newborough, Anglesey
The Marram Grass Café
Hidden in the lanes near Newborough Forest, The Marram Grass has quietly become one of Anglesey's most talked-about restaurants — a converted farm building with a kitchen-garden philosophy that means most ingredients come from the plot outside or from neighbouring farms.
Church Bay, Anglesey
The Lobster Pot, Church Bay
A traditional seafood restaurant occupying a prime position above the slipway at Church Bay (Porth Swtan), one of the most sheltered and picturesque coves on Anglesey's north coast.
Beaumaris, Anglesey
Beaumaris Castle
The last and most technically accomplished of Edward I's Iron Ring of castles, Beaumaris was begun in 1295 and — despite never being fully completed — is considered the finest example of concentric castle design in Britain.
Llanddaniel Fab, Anglesey
Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber
A Neolithic passage tomb dating to around 3000 BC, Bryn Celli Ddu — 'the mound in the dark grove' — is the best-preserved prehistoric monument on Anglesey and one of the most important in Wales.
Penmon, Anglesey
Penmon Priory & Dovecote
At the far eastern tip of Anglesey, Penmon Priory is a remarkably intact complex of Norman and Early Christian religious buildings — a 12th-century church, the remains of a priory, and one of the finest medieval dovecotes in Wales, built around 1600 to house 1,000 pigeons.
Holyhead, Holy Island
South Stack Lighthouse & RSPB Reserve
Perched on a tiny island connected to Holy Island by a suspension bridge, South Stack Lighthouse (1809) is one of the most dramatically positioned lighthouses in Britain — 400 steps down a cliff face, with the sea surging through the channel below.
Brynsiencyn, Anglesey
Anglesey Sea Zoo
Britain's largest natural seawater aquarium sits on the shores of the Menai Straits at Brynsiencyn, showcasing the marine life of the surrounding Welsh seas through tanks that hold live lobsters, rays, seahorses, conger eels, and shoals of native fish.
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