Classical Accounts – GeographiaĪmong the first mentions of Anglesey in the classics we have the dubious report of Gaius Plinius Secundus or Pliny the Elder, a Roman of equestrian rank from Transpadane Gaul (Northern Italy). The estimated population of Anglesey was around 68,500 inhabitants in 1985, and Holyhead, the primary town and busy seaport at the north end of Holy Island had an estimated population of 13,000 in 1988. Named Ynys Seiriol in Welsh and formerly known as Priestholm after the monastic settlement there, the rocky outcrop is now a nature reserve inhabited in the main by a peculiar species of seabird whose presence have determined its modern name, Puffin Island.Īnglesey, Holy Island, Puffin Island and about a dozen more small rocks together formed a separate county up until 1974 when they were made part of Gwynedd. Just ¼mile off the eastern coast of Anglesey lies a large rock which rises over 190 feet (58 metres) above sea-level. km), which lies close off the western coast of Anglesey and is separated from the larger island by a narrow and muddy tidal strait, which runs for about 4 miles (6.5 km) north to south between Beddmanarch Bay and Cymyran Bay. Ynys Gybi or Holy Island is a smaller land mass of only 24 square miles (62 sq. Anglesey measures about 20½ miles (33 km) north-south by some 22 miles (36 km) east-west but is somewhat irregular in outline, having an area of only 276 square miles (714 sq. Ynys Môn or Anglesey Island lies off the north-west coast of Wales and is separated from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait, a narrow channel of the Irish Sea which runs from south-west to north-east for some 15 miles (24 km) between Abermenai Point near Caernarfon, to Bangor, whereafter it widens into the flat expanse of Lavan Sands opposite Beaumaris, eventually to form the western cusp of Conwy Bay.
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