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AdventuresBeaumaris, 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.
AttractionsBeaumaris, 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.
wildlifeHolyhead, 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.
AdventuresHoly 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.
AdventuresBeaumaris, Anglesey
Sea Kayaking from Beaumaris
Passage Guiding 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.
AttractionsLlanddaniel 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.
AttractionsPenmon, 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.
walkingHolyhead, Holy Island
Holyhead Mountain Circular Walk
The circular walk from Holyhead town over Holy Mountain (Mynydd Twr, 220 metres) and back via the coastal path is one of the most rewarding short hikes in North Wales — a 4-mile loop with 360-degree views stretching from Snowdonia to the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland on clear days.
AttractionsNear Moelfre, Anglesey
Din Lligwy Ancient Village
A late-Roman and early post-Roman enclosed settlement on the northeast coast near Moelfre, Din Lligwy preserves the stone walls of a 4th-century village in remarkable condition — enclosures and the footprints of both round and rectangular houses still legible on the ground after 1,700 years.
AttractionsLlanfairpwll, Anglesey
Llanfairpwll Station Name Sign
The railway station at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch — the longest place name in Europe at 58 characters — is the only place in the world where the full name appears in its officially correct form, on the original platform sign.
walkingHolyhead, Holy Island
Breakwater Country Park
Set on the northern tip of Holy Island around the base of the world's longest breakwater (2.
walkingRhoscolyn, Holy Island
Rhoscolyn Coastal Walk
The 4-mile headland loop from Rhoscolyn village on the southern tip of Holy Island follows the Anglesey Coastal Path around a dramatic sequence of quartzite sea cliffs, natural rock arches — most famously the Bwa Du (Black Arch) and the pale Bwa Gwyn (White Arch) — sheltered coves, and wild cliff-top heathland before returning through farmland past the 6th-century holy well of St Gwenfaen, which local tradition held could cure mental illness through ritual offerings of white quartz pebbles.
AttractionsNear Moelfre, Anglesey
Lligwy Burial Chamber
Dating to around 2500 BC, the Lligwy Burial Chamber's capstone — a single limestone slab measuring roughly 5.
FamilyBrynsiencyn, 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.
AdventuresRhosneigr, 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 Funsport and several other BKSA-accredited schools operating from the beach year-round.
AdventuresRhosneigr, Anglesey
Gecko Surf School, Rhosneigr
Gecko Surf runs surf and kitesurf lessons from Rhosneigr beach, one of the most consistent wave and wind spots on the Welsh coast — Atlantic swell in autumn and winter, flat-water kitesurfing conditions across the shallow inshore lagoon in summer.
walkingPenmon, Anglesey
Penmon Point Coastal Walk
The coastal walk from Penmon Priory to Black Point lighthouse and back is four miles of easy path along the northeast tip of Anglesey, with Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol) lying just 500 metres offshore throughout and grey seals hauled out on the lower rocks year-round.
BeachesNewborough, Anglesey
Newborough Beach & Llanddwyn Island
One of Wales' finest beaches, stretching for miles along the southwestern tip of Anglesey through Newborough Warren nature reserve.
BeachesRhosneigr, 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.
BeachesTrearddur 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.
BeachesBenllech, 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.
BeachesRed 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.
AdventuresRAF Mona, Anglesey
Pleasure Flights from RAF Mona
Mona Flying Club, based at RAF Mona near Bodffordd in central Anglesey, offers trial flying lessons in light aircraft, accompanied by a qualified instructor over some of the island's best coastline and scenery.
BeachesNear Moelfre, Anglesey
Lligwy Beach
A broad, sheltered bay on the northeast coast near Moelfre, Lligwy Beach (Traeth Lligwy) is one of Anglesey's best-kept secrets: a wide arc of sand that faces north, backed by low dunes, and rarely crowded even in August when the more famous beaches are packed.
BeachesChurch Bay, Anglesey
Church Bay (Porth Swtan)
A secluded bay on the northwest coast tucked between headlands, Church Bay (Porth Swtan) feels genuinely remote despite being reachable by road — the kind of Anglesey beach where the car park empties on a Tuesday in July and the sand feels like it belongs to you.
BeachesHoly Island, Anglesey
Porth Dafarch Beach
A sheltered horseshoe cove on the southwest coast of Holy Island, Porth Dafarch is a quieter, more rugged alternative to Trearddur Bay two miles north — fewer facilities, rockier edges, and snorkelling that ranks among the best in Wales.
BeachesAberffraw, Anglesey
Aberffraw Beach
A broad, dune-backed beach at the mouth of the Afon Ffraw estuary on the southwest coast, Aberffraw (Traeth Aberffraw) rewards visitors who make the detour: a Blue Flag winner that is almost always quiet, with the ruined court of the Princes of Gwynedd hidden in the village just behind.
walkingNewborough, Anglesey
Newborough Forest & Beach Loop
A 5-mile circular walk through Newborough Forest and back along Newborough Beach combines Corsican pine forest, red squirrel habitat, sand dunes, and one of Wales' finest beaches in a single well-paced loop.
wildlifeCemlyn, Anglesey
Cemlyn Bay Nature Reserve
Cemlyn Bay on the north coast holds one of the UK's largest Sandwich tern colonies, with hundreds of pairs nesting on the shingle bar that encloses the lagoon from May through July — a genuinely extraordinary wildlife spectacle within minutes of the car park.
AttractionsLlangefni, Anglesey
Oriel Môn Gallery & Museum, Llangefni
Anglesey's principal museum and art gallery, Oriel Môn in Llangefni holds the most comprehensive collection of material relating to Anglesey's history anywhere on the island — from Neolithic artefacts and Bronze Age metalwork to the story of the Parys Mountain Copper Kingdom and a permanent tribute to Charles Tunnicliffe, the wildlife artist who painted Anglesey for 30 years.
FamilyBrynsiencyn, Anglesey
Foel Farm Park, Brynsiencyn
A working farm at Brynsiencyn that doubles as Anglesey's finest family attraction, Foel Farm Park lets children feed lambs, meet pigs and ponies, and follow the seasons of a genuine dairy operation with views down to the Menai Straits and Caernarfon Castle across the water.
FamilyMenai Bridge, Anglesey
Pili Palas Nature World
A tropical butterfly house and nature world near Menai Bridge, Pili Palas (Welsh for 'butterfly') houses free-flying exotic butterflies, parakeets, giant tortoises, and a collection of snakes, lizards, and insects in heated glasshouses that stay open year-round.
walkingNewborough, Anglesey
Llanddwyn Island Walk
The walk from Newborough Beach across the dunes and along the shore to Ynys Llanddwyn — a narrow tidal promontory jutting into Caernarfon Bay — takes in one of Wales's most romantic landscapes, combining white sand, Corsican pine forest, and a ruined 16th-century church dedicated to St Dwynwen, Wales's patron saint of lovers whose feast day falls on 25 January.
walkingNear Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey
Mynydd Bodafon Walk
Mynydd Bodafon (178 metres) is Anglesey's highest inland summit — a heather-and-gorse moorland ridge of ancient Precambrian quartzite rising abruptly from the flat farmland of the east coast, with views from the trig point that stretch to the full Snowdonia skyline, the Llŷn Peninsula, and on exceptionally clear days the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland.
walkingMoelfre, Anglesey
Moelfre Coastal Walk
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walkingNear Amlwch, Anglesey
Parys Mountain
The summit plateau of Parys Mountain (146 metres) above Amlwch presents a landscape so extraordinary it was used as a stand-in for Mars in early film productions — a post-industrial moonscape of ochre, rust-red, violet and acid-green spoil heaps pocked with mineral-stained pools, the skeletal remains of an 18th-century windmill, and the sheer walls of the Great Opencast, an excavation so vast it is visible from the main road miles away.
FamilyBeaumaris, Anglesey
Beaumaris Gaol
Built in 1829 to designs by Joseph Hansom — who also invented the Hansom cab — Beaumaris Gaol is one of the best-preserved Victorian prisons in Britain, its original treadwheel, dark punishment cells, condemned cell, and execution room still intact inside the pale limestone walls on Bunkers Hill, a short walk from the castle.
FamilyLlanddeusant, Anglesey
Melin Llynon Windmill
Melin Llynon at Llanddeusant in northwest Anglesey is the only working windmill in Wales, restored in 1986 from a derelict shell and now grinding flour with its original stone mechanism when the wind allows — producing wholemeal flour for sale on-site at a rate that remains unchanged from its 1776 construction date.
FamilyBeaumaris, Anglesey
Beaumaris Pier
Beaumaris Pier — a Victorian cast-iron structure extending 147 metres into the Menai Strait from the town's seafront — is one of the gentlest and most rewarding free activities on the island: crabbing from the railings with children, watching seals surface in the channel below, or simply taking in the view across the water to the mountains of Snowdonia with the 13th-century castle framing the left-hand side of the picture.
AdventuresMenai Bridge, Anglesey
RibRide
RibRide runs high-speed rigid inflatable boat trips from Menai Bridge, heading out along the Menai Strait beneath the Menai Suspension Bridge.
walkingHolyhead, Holy Island
Penrhos Coastal Park Walk
Penrhos Coastal Park (Parc Arfordirol Penrhos) covers around 200 acres of woodland, meadow and shoreline on the eastern edge of Holyhead, where the paths of the old Penrhos estate run down to the sheltered water of Beddmanarch Bay.
wildlifeOff Penmon, Anglesey
Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol) Wildlife Reserve
Puffin Island (Ynys Seiriol) is a small uninhabited island off Anglesey's eastern tip, managed as a nature reserve by the Wildlife Trust of North Wales.
AttractionsLlanfairpwll, Anglesey
Marquess of Anglesey's Column
A 27-metre Doric column in Llanfairpwll, erected in 1816 to honour Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, who commanded the Allied cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo and lost his leg in the closing moments of the battle.
AttractionsTraeth Dulas, near City Dulas, Anglesey
Dulas Shipwreck (Traeth Dulas)
A weathered wooden shipwreck stranded on the tidal sands of Traeth Dulas, on the quiet northeast coast near City Dulas and Moelfre.