isle of anglesey brochure 2013
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Ynys Mn
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I have an island full of pleasantmemories of Anglesey. What I missmost are the skies, always on the
move, and the sweeping winds.Is there a more beautiful place inthe world than Llanddwyn Island?
Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
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Keith & Kathryn Selfe - Preserving Anglesey
Glyn Davies - PhotoArtist, Menai Bridge
Brian & Fiona Thomas - MooBaaOinc
David Jenkins - Copper Mountain, Amlwch
David Edwards - Ebb and Flow
Gerwyn Morgan - Plas Rhianfa
Alison Lea-Wilson - Halen Mn
Margaret Wood - Anglesey Rocksand Geo Mn
Kathy James & Ken Croft - Nature Bites
Kristoffer Hughes - Pagan Druid
Map of Anglesey
Anglesey Activities
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Carreglefn Nursery
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Anglesey is described as the Mother of Wales,
Mn Mam Cymru in Welsh. It has always been a
rich and diversified agricultural area providing, in days
gone by, a vast array of staple crops to the more
rugged areas of North Wales. Just take a look
at the ancient grain and flour mills dotted around the
countryside and it will give you an indication of the
islands productivity.
But when Keith and Kathryn Selfe moved to Anglesey
with their family they had diversification and
productivity ideas of their own as to what this island
could produce. They established Carreglefn Nursery.
Kathryn is a qualified chef, and Keith, having been a
policeman for thirty years, including protection dutyof the Queen Mother, had always been a very keen
gardener with green fingers.
Our part of Anglesey, Carreglefn, near Amlwch,
has a balmy, Gulf Stream climate. It also has great
seaweed with nutrients, and salt is always in the air,
says Keith. Things grow here when they shouldnt.
It is quite incredible.
Even more incredible was their decision to invest
what they had in growing tropical plants andproduce - kiwi fruit, oranges, spices and bananas -
in unheated sheltered poly tunnels, dominating a
garden already well populated with ducks, birds, fish,
Keith & Kathryn Selfe -Preserving Anglesey
Keith&kathrynSelfe
dogs and a gargantuan pig. Talk about the
Good Life!
Then came the inspired decision. Kathryn began
making jams and preservatives, using Keiths palate
as quality control! He wasnt too keen on the sweet
stuff but when Kathryn turned to producing literally,
breathtaking chutneys, Keith was in his element. So
too were judges at prestige True Taste Awards, with
a Two Gold Star Awards for her Kiwi Jam, and a one
star award for Keiths favourite the aptly named
Lucifer Chilli Chutney. To give you some idea of
how competitive these Guild of Fine Foods events
are, it took 350 experts 34 days to blind taste 7,481
products from 1600 companies and Lucifer
beat them all. And the awards from True Tasteof Wales and Angleseys Tourism ceremonies
have kept coming.
Anglesey has certainly inspired us, says Keith.
Our children are Welsh speaking, it is a fantastic, safe
place to be, and the nursery is ripe for expansion.
Already on the wish list is converting the garage into
a commercial kitchen, marketing their produce to
local hotels, and hopefully a supermarket chain.
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Afon Braint
Dwyran
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MooBaaOinc
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Just in case you are wondering. The Moo
represents beef, the Baa is lamb and you decide
what the Oinc means.
Collectively, they represent the home grown produce
available in a recently opened farm produce shop,
caf and restaurant in Beaumaris.
The shop was the brainchild of farmer Brian Thomas
and his wife Fiona. Brian has done his time on
farmers' protest lines against Irish beef imports,
the low prices paid by supermarkets and meaner
milk prices. He endured the Foot and Mouth crisis in
2001, but he is a passionate man, and a champion of
Welsh Black cattle, which he breeds with Welsh Lamb
at his two Llannerch-y-Medd farms.
The specialist butchers on the island gradually
closed down against supermarket competition,
says Brian. That led to Farmers' Markets all over the
island, but they were one day affairs and didnt really
work or pay the way. Farm Shops came along, with
permanent premises, so that at least you stood a
chance of competing with the big stores. And, as
I am a proud and defiant Anglesey man, if I could
draw customers away from the big boys with better
produce, then I was happy very happy.
So MooBaaOinc, a butchery and local produce
shop, was born in a Beaumaris shop premises that
housed an Indian Restaurant, once raided by the
Brian & Fiona Thomas -MooBaaOinc
MooBaaOinc
police looking for illegal immigrants allegedly housed
underneath the restaurant floor. We did find
massive underground holes under the floor when
we first came here. It was quite a shock, and so our
project was a mighty construction challenge,
admits Brian.
There were unused, unsafe lofts above the caf,
but in Brian's imagination it was the ideal space for
a restaurant . Another, even larger reconstruction
challenge but Brian is nothing if not defiant.
All he needed now, was someone to cook!
A young backpacker was looking to return home
to Anglesey with his young family. And as a now
celebrated Michelin champion, and a GordonRamsey scholarship winning chef, Aled Williams,
formerly of everywhere - Sydney, New York, Ynyshir
Hall Machynlleth - was inspired by the Brian and
Fiona dream of not only bringing the Farm to Town
in the shop, but their ambition of bringing Farm to
Fork in a restaurant.
There was room enough upstairs to house the
ambition and that was the birth of the Cennin (Welsh
for leek) restaurant. Aled had been a long standing
admirer of local produce. This was his inspiration, andthe obvious benefits of helping local producers, and
returning to his home patch.
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Parys Mountain, Amlwch
Mynydd Parys, Amlwch
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David Jenkins is very much a mining archaeology
enthusiast, and there is nothing more he likes todo but travel from his Snowdonia home and spend
hours in the shafts and tunnels of Amlwchs Parysmountain. This is not born of inspiration, it is a
passionate dedication for him, and fellow membersof the Parys Underground Group.
There is also nothing more he would like better
than to invite you to share his zeal by visiting themountain heritage trail and also the Copper Kingdom
mining and maritime centres on the Porth Amlwchquayside. The exhibition includes a state of the art
touchscreen - kids will love it!
With some justification, they claim, that here, inthe sleepy postcard sea resort of Amlwch, a major
contribution was made to the beginning of theIndustrial Revolution in Britain. "Not only that, says
David, we are looking at a heritage of 4,000 years ofmining, 20km of passageways and 120 shafts
and it serves as a great introduction to our industrialheritage.
Amlwch town was a major conurbation before
Cardiff/Swansea, Amlwch port was an importantbusy sea port on the North Wales coast.
Copper mining on Anglesey dates back to the Bronze
Age, but efforts to find and then mine copper in the
18th century were hampered by floods and
David JenkinsCopper Kingdom, Amlwch
DavidJenkins
extremely challenging working conditions. MaxBoyces colliery steel, pick and shovel had not yet
been invented.
By strategically and systematically digging a patternof exploratory new shafts, one Rowland Pugh,
a miner, discovered copper ore for the owner, SirNicholas Bayley.. He was rewarded with a bottle of
whisky and a rent-free cottage for a year. That wasthe shrewdest investment in Anglesey history.
There are maps of the tunnels and workings, shafts
and vents, which make the London Underground asimplistic navigational experience.
But the relatively crude methods of extractionworkings did have an impact. It is now a savagedlunar landscape, a colossal, but exceptionally
colourful monument to an age gone by. It is alreadya favoured filming location. The unique devastated
landscape has attracted the producers of Dr Who,Mortal Kombat as well as many documentaries.
But does it have future beyond historical and
industrial fascination? With contemporary worldcopper prices rocketing there may well be a future
for mining copper and zinc at Parys Mountain. .
He smiles.This is just part of the copper magicof Parys Mountain at Amlwch.
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Menai Strait
Afon Menai
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David Edwards is a successful novelist, sacrificing a
personal millionaire fortune and leaving his family
to becoming one. After leaving Cheshire, he found
Anglesey, and now lives in a caravan on the luxury
chalet park of Plas Coch, rubbing shoulders with
Premiership footballers, rugby league players and
Cheshire weekend retreaters.
All his possessions fit into his car, not that he cares
for material matters these days. He is content with a
new family, and is building or converting a new home
at Brynsiencyn, overlooking the Menai Strait.
A congenial and thoughtful conversationalist, he
brims with excitement when talking about Anglesey.
To say that he has embraced the island would be anunderstatement. He has totally immersed himself in
local historical date and events for his novel Ebb and
Flow. He finds it inspiring to be living close to the
Strait and the site where the Romans invaded
Anglesey and slaughtered the defending Druids.
His first novel, written under his pseudonym
Jack George Edmonson, was a best seller. The Sun
Sharer was explicit in its examination and
questioning of marriage, affairs, and material
superficiality.
Ebb and Flow is also based on relationships, or
rather the bitter rivalries between the wealthy English
land owning barons of Anglesey in the eighteenth
David Edwards -Ebb and Flow
DavidEdwards
century and their harsh and dismissive treatment of
the islands people. It is a tale of corruption, cruelty,
murder, feudal exploitation and suffering, leaving the
reader is no doubt that David Edwards has adopted
Anglesey as his own.
I find the tranquillity of Anglesey so appealing.
People here have time for each other and that
seems to be ingrained in the culture. Theres the
lack of cars as well, and always something to dis-
cover. It is a different place, almost a foreign place.
A two hour drive from the big English cities, and
you find yourself in a different country not county.
It is a joy to be here.
And of course there is the Welsh Language. VisitingEnglish friends are puzzled or unsettled by it, but I tell
them the reason people are speaking in Welsh, is be-
cause they are Welsh!
So it comes and no surprise to hear that David
Edwards is learning the language.
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Plas Rhianfa
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I met David, my husband, when we were students at
Bangor University.We decided to live on Anglesey
because, quite simply, we loved the area and, it has
to be said, was slightly more affordable than the
mainland. Student days have not changed, and we
were always short of money. So we started trading
as shellfish fish and game wholesalers from our
unrefrigerated Morris 1000 van, growing and taking
oysters and winkles to Blackpool and bringing wet
fish back. There were some pretty hairy moments,
especially if the van broke down. All our marketing
was done from a 'phone box down the road.
It did seem that all the people we met in our part
of Anglesey were sea inspired, and that probably
fashioned our lives. A large building at Brynsiencyncame on the market, and though I tried to hide my
pregnancy, a friendly bank manager did grant us a
loan to buy the property. We didnt have the foggiest
idea what to do with it. So for a while it became an
art, local crafts and pottery gallery. But we did have
an aquarium outside and we began lobster farming,
which attracted interest. We bought some more
tanks, which eventually developed into the Anglesey
Sea Zoo. We hadnt planned anything like that, we
just fell into it.
It was successful and we developed it over the years,
but summer income was only just enough to cover
our winter and considerable training costs, and there
were other problems too. People kept pinching our
Alison Lea-Wilson -Halen Mn
DavidLea-Wilson
ideas, and whereas there was only one other Sea
Zoo in the UK when we started, there were 30 by the
time we finished. We knew had to find something
else in order to survive.
The answer was all around us. We boiled a saucepan
of Anglesey sea water on the Aga, and salt crystals
began to appear. It was a defining moment. David
then won a Winston Churchill Memorial Scholarship,
allowing him to travel and study salt making in Japan,
New Zealand and French Polynesia.
On his return Halen Mn Anglesey Sea Salt - with
David at the helm, was born. Five years ago, we
decided that we could no longer sustain the Zoo and
the Salt business. We decided to sell the Zoo, whichwas a huge emotional wrench.
Halen Mn is now distributed world wide. It is found
in restaurants and recipes everywhere, and acclaimed
by chefs and catering gurus and leading shop chains.
President Obama likes it too.
The sceptics and cynics have been silenced by our
salt. Anglesey provided and inspired, and I cannot
think of anywhere else I would rather be.
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South Stack
Ynys Lawd
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Holyhead
Caergybi
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Roam around Anglesey and you will notice signs
pointing to ancient burial chambers, tombs, sacred
sites and standing stones all revealing a past when
Anglesey was protected and controlled by the Druids.
It is the ancestral home of British Druids.
Anglesey is, perhaps, the oldest recorded place name
in Britain. We have the Romans to thank for that,
since this is where the front line of Druidic Priests
and Priestesses fought and sacrificed their lives
against the ruthless Roman armies of Julius
Caesar, with the savage and merciless battles
recorded by Tacitus.
The Druids were the intellectual and spiritual class
of the Celts. They were the mediators between theGods and their people and Anglesey was the spiritual
centre of the Druidic world. They were totally
connected to the land and its nature, and would
defend Anglesey with their lives, and did.
The Druids are a source of spiritual fascination and
dedication to Druidic expert and writer Kristoffer
Hughes who lives in Bodorgan, on Anglesey. He
travels the world, lecturing, holding workshops, and
explaining his love of Celtic heritage and culture.
Anglesey to Kristoffer, evokes the memories and
tales of the ancient priesthood and the power and
influence the Druids possessed. He hates leaving
the island, because it is a special and magical place.
Kristoffer Hughes -Pagan Druid
KristofferHughes-FounderoftheAnglesey
DruidicOrder
We walk on the same soil, and breathe the same air
as the Druids did, he says, and when I look over to
Snowdonia, where I was born, that to me is a totally
different place and another world. That little ribbon
of water separates us. When he leaves the island he
is anxious to return.
His books have been a massive success, but here
also lies an intriguing story. His publishers, Llewellyn
Worldwide, was established in 1901 by the late
Llewellyn George in Portland ,Oregon. As the name
suggests, Llewellyn George was a Welshman, born
in Swansea, and the publishing house specialises
in occult books. Kris Hughes became the first
Welshman to publish with the American company.
His latest book sold 30,000 copies world-wide.Anglesey is a special and magical place, he says,
it is in my blood.
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ALLWEDD / KEY
Isle of Anglesey County Council
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NEED A BED? BOOK AHEAD!Why not let us do all the hard work for
you? Just let us know your requirements(dates, facilities, price range etc.) and we
will do the rest! A 10% deposit (deducted
from your total bill) and a 2.00 booking
fee secures the booking.
Opening Hours:-
Mon to Sat: 09.30 - 17.00
Sun: 09.30 - 16.30
You can email, phone or visit touristinformation centre at Llanfairpwll who
provide a warm welcome and a wide
variety of services. Information is provided
on attractions, activities and events on the
island. They can also offer advice and help
on booking accommodation.
Located near the railway station and
within the Edinburgh woollen mill building
Tel: 01248 713177
Email: [email protected]
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Tourist Information
Centre
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Below is a list of attractions on Anglesey to make your visit even more enjoyable.
For a comprehensive list of attractions and activities on Anglesey please visitwww.visitanglesey.co.uk or Contact the Tourism Information Centre on
01248 713177
AttractionsAmlwch Copper Kingdom Amlwch LL68 9DB 01407 832255
Anglesey Circuit Bodorgan LL62 5LP 01407 811400
Anglesey Sea Zoo Brynsiencyn LL61 6TQ 01248 430411
Beaumaris Castle Beaumaris LL58 8AP 01248 810361
Beaumaris Goal & Courthouse Beaumaris LL58 8PE 01248 724444
Cartio Mn Karting Bodedern LL65 3PA 01407 741144Foel Farm Park, Brynsiencyn LL61 6TQ 01248 430646
Holyhead Breakwater Country Park Holyhead 01407 760530
Holyhead Maritime Museum Holyhead LL65 1YD 01407 769745
James Pringle Weavers Llanfairpwll LL61 5UJ 01248 717171
Llynnon Mill Llanddeusani LL65 4AB 01407 730797
Marquess of Anglesey Column Llanfairpwll LL61 5NJ 01248 714393
Menai Heritage Menai Bridge LL59 5EA 01248 715046
Moelfre Seawatch Centre Moelfre LL72 8HY 01248 410277
Oriel Ynys Mn Llangefni LL77 7TQ 01248 724444
Plas Newydd, National Trust Llanfairpwll LL61 6DQ 01248 714795Pili Palas Menai Bridge LL59 5RP 01248 712474
Swtan Church Bay LL65 4ES 01407 730501
Tacla Taid Newborough LL61 6TN 01248 440344
Ucheldre Centre Holyhead LL65 1TE 01407 763361
Leisure Services
Amlwch Leisure Centre Amlwch LL68 9PG 01407 830060
Beaumaris Leisure Centre Beaumaris LL56 8AL 01248 811200
David Hughes Leisure Centre Menai Bridge LL59 5SS 01248 715653
Holyhead Leisure Centre Holyhead LL65 2YE 01407 764111Plas Arthur Leisure Centre Llangefni LL77 7QX 01248 722966
Llangefni Golf course/driving range Llangefni LL77 8YQ 01248 722193
Anglesey Activities For further informationgo to www.visitanglesey.co.uk
Isle of Anglesey Golf PassPlay 5 rounds of golf for only 79
A choice of 6 18 hole courses - Baron Hill Golf Club, The Anglesey Golf Club,
Storws Wen Golf Club, Bull Bay Golf Club, Henllys Golf Club and Holyhead Golf Club.
Valid for 1 year from date of purchase
To purchase your Anglesey Golf Pass call 0845 450 5885
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Argraffu/Print -
Westdale Press Ltd. Cardiff
Dylunio/Design -
Stephen Edwards & Stephen Jones,
Adain Graffeg / Design Section,Cyngor Sir Ynys Mn / Isle of Anglesey County Council
Cefnogwyd gan/Endorsed by -
Destination Anglesey Partnership (DAP)
Ysgrifen/Editorial -
Martyn Williams, Cardiff
Ffotograffiaeth/Photography -
Glyn Davies / glyndavies.com, Stuart Campbell
Visit Wales,BRAND (ERDF) Ireland Wales Programme,
Isle of Anglesey County Council
Hawlfraint Copyright 2013
Cyngor Sir Ynys Mn / Isle of Anglesey County Council
Whilst every effort has been made to ensure accuracy in this guide, we can acceptno liability for any errors, inaccuracies or omissions, or for any matter in any wayconnected with or arising ou t of t he publ ication of the information d etailed inthis guide. The Council can accept no liability whatsoever for any accidentsor injuries caused through participation in activities detailed in this guide.
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