Amlwch is a port town and community in Wales. It is situated on the north coast of the Isle of Anglesey,on the A5025 which connects it to Holyhead and to Menai Bridge. As well as Amlwch town and Amlwch Port,other settlements within the community include Burwen,Bull Bay (Porthllechog) and Pentrefelin. The town has a beach in Llaneilian,and it has significant coastal cliffs. Tourism is an important element of the local economy. At one time it was a booming mining town that became the centre of a vast global trade in copper ore. The harbour inlet became a busy port and significant shipbuilding and ship repair centre,as well as an embarkation point with boats sailing to the Isle of Man and to Liverpool. The community covers an area of about 15 square kilometres.
Parys Mountain is located south of the town of Amlwch in north east Anglesey,Wales. Originally known as Trysclwyn,the high ground is reputed to have gained its current name when it was given to Robert Parys,Chamberlain of North Wales by Henry IV. It is the site of a large copper mine that was extensively exploited in the late 18th century. Parys Mountain is a mountain in name only,being a hill with an elevation of less than 150m.
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The Anglesey Coastal Path is a 200-kilometre (124 mi) long-distance footpath around the island of Anglesey in North Wales. The route is part of the Wales Coast Path.
Conder tokens,also known as 18th-century provincial tokens,were a form of privately minted token coinage struck and used during the later part of the 18th century and the early part of the 19th century in England and Wales,Scotland,and Ireland.
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1800–1809 to Wales and its people.
Michael Hughes was a Welsh industrialist best known for his role in the copper mining industry.
Llanidan is a community in the south of Anglesey,Wales which includes the village of Brynsiencyn. The parish is along the Menai Strait,about 4 miles north-east of Caernarfon. The parish church of St Nidan is near the A4080 road,a little to the east of Brynsiencyn. The ruins of an earlier parish church survive.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1802 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.
Thomas Peers Williams was a British politician,military officer and landowner who was a member of Parliament for Great Marlow from 1820 to 1868. He was Father of the House of Commons from December 1867 to 1868.
Owen Williams was a British politician who was a member of parliament for Great Marlow from 25 May 1796 to his death 23 February 1832.
Anglesey is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the county known as the Isle of Anglesey,which also includes Holy Island and some islets and skerries. The county borders Gwynedd across the Menai Strait to the southeast,and is otherwise surrounded by the Irish Sea. Holyhead is the largest town,and the administrative centre is Llangefni. The county is part of the preserved county of Gwynedd. Anglesey is the northernmost county in Wales.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1737 to Wales and its people.
Augustin Gottfried Ludwig Lentin was a German chemist. He was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and subsequently inspector of saltworks,and a writer and translator of works on chemistry and metallurgy.
The Roman conquest of Anglesey refers to two separate invasions of Anglesey in North West Wales that occurred during the early decades of the Roman conquest of Britain in the 1st century CE. The first invasion of North Wales began after the Romans had subjugated much of southern Britain. It was led by the Provincial governor of Britannia,Suetonius Paulinus,who led a successful assault on the island in 60–61 CE,but had to withdraw because of the Boudican revolt. In 77 CE,Gnaeus Julius Agricola's thorough subjugation of the island left it under Roman rule until the end of Roman rule in Britain in the early 5th century CE. The invasions occurred because Anglesey,which was recorded in Latin as Mona was a place of resistance to Roman rule because it was an important centre for the Celtic Druids and their religious practices.
Lieutenant-General Owen Lewis Cope Williams JP was a British Army officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. He belonged to the Marlborough House set around the future King Edward VII.
William Lewis Hughes,1st Baron Dinorben,was a Welsh copper mine owner,philanthropist and Whig politician.
The Old Church of St Nidan,Llanidan is a medieval church in the community of Llanidan,in Anglesey,North Wales,close to the Menai Strait. The first church on the site was established in the 7th century by St Nidan,the confessor of the monastery at Penmon,Anglesey,but the oldest parts of the present structure,now closed and partly ruined,date from the 14th century. In about 1500 the church was enlarged by the addition of a second nave on the north side,separated from the earlier nave by an arcade of six arches. During 1839 till 1843 a new church was built nearby to serve the local community,partly due to the cost of repairing the old church. Much of the building was subsequently demolished,leaving only part of the western end and the central arcade. The decision was condemned at the time by Harry Longueville Jones,a clergyman and antiquarian,who lamented the "melancholy fate" of what he called "one of the largest and most important [churches] in the island of Anglesey". Other appreciative comments have been made about the church both before and after its partial demolition.
Anglesey Mining plcis a United Kingdom based mining company. The company is listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker AYM in the mining sector. The company has three projects,Parys Mountain in Wales,Grängesberg in Sweden,and Labrador Iron Mines in Canada.
