Holy Island, Anglesey, Islandeering Route .

Key Facts

• Location: Anglesey, Wales
• Size: 3942 hectares
• Terrain: Coast path
• Access: Road bridge from Anglesey
• Height gain: 1111 metres
• Map: OS Explorer 262 Anglesey West
• Starting point: Holyhead Old Lifeboat Station and Museum (GR SH 245 832)

Route Description

The circular walk around Holy Island, Anglesey, is one of the best sections of the Wales Coast Path. With a dramatic coastline, impossibly located lighthouses, powerful tidal races and spectacular bird life this is a walker’s  paradise. This walk passes the port of Holyhead and its breakwater, one of the longest in Europe before heading up the flanks of Holyhead Mountain, the highest peak in the county of Anglesey. It passes the two tiny islands of North Stack and wildlife-filled South Stack, and takes in the spectacular sea arches near Rhoscolyn as well as the larger sand beaches at Trearddhur Bay and Penrhos Country Park. To make the most of everything that there is to see it is recommended that the walk is taken in an anti-clockwise directions and is split over three days as follows:

Holyhead to Trearddur – 18km

Trearddur to Four Mile Bridge – 15km

Four Mile Bridge to Holyhead – 10km

• Look out for:
  • Bwa Gwyn sea arch
  • Precipitous views of South and North Stack islands
  • Hidden beaches
  • History and wildlife of Breakwater Country Park

The Anglesey Coast Path on Holy Island officially starts at St Cybi’s Church in Holyhead. It initially leads passed the ferry port – the gateway to Ireland before heading up to Holyhead Mountain. Here you pass an old Iron Age hill-fort,  eventually leading to the famous South Stack lighthouse and Twr Elin – a popular spot for bird-watchers. Further on, the path drops from the cliff tops to beaches like Porth Dafarch and Trearddur Bay and rugged coastline and the healing-well and sea arches near Rhoscolyn and on to Silver Bay. Here the path veers inland through the gorse and quiet lanes to Four Mile Bridge. After crossing the bridge back to Anglesey, the Wales Coast Path is followed underneath the A5, where the walk then returns to Holy Island via the Stanley Embankment and then Penrhos Park.

Accommodation along Anglesey Coast Path

Holyhead, Trearddur and Four Mile Bridge have a number of accommodation options as stopovers along the coast path.

For more details on walking the Holy Island section of the Anglesey Coast Path here –

https://www.walescoastpath.gov.uk/media/1518/isle-of-anglesey-multi-day-walk-v4.pdf

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