Aberffraw - Aberffraw Accommodation Isle of Anglesey
Aberffraw: Holiday and short break accommodation in Aberffraw can be found in both serviced hotels, bed and breakfast and guest houses, while self catering cottages, campsites and mobile homes offer a self caterd holiday experience.
All Aberffraw accommodation is of superb quality, catering for the highest standards expected of today’s tourists and visitors to any Wales accommodation.
Aberffraw lies on the south west coast of the Isle of Anglesey, with miles of sand dunes and a most spectacular golden sandy beach, Aberffraw has welcomed tourists and holiday makers for many years. The village has a very important place in Welsh history and in the Middle Ages was the political centre of Wales and the capital of the kingdom of Gwynedd.
However well before then in the Mesolithic period around 7,000 BC humans had first settled here.
As with most Cities, Towns and Villages fresh water was the main reason they were built and Aberffraw is no exception, the village was built on the banks of the river Ffraw near the sea estuary and beach. The origin of the name Aberffraw comes from Aber meaning at the mouth of the estuary or river.
The mouth of the river now is quite narrow and also quite shallow, but in medieval times when the Prince of Wales lived here the estuary would have been much wider and the river much deeper to allow large ships to dock.
Christian worship can be traced back to 1254 and the old church of Llangwyfan that stands on a rocky islet in a bay just outside Aberffraw and was dedicated to St. Cwyfan, who was possibly the Irish saint whose name was spelt Coemgen by the Irish. St Coemgen centre was at Glendalough not far from a stretch of the Irish coast directly across the sea from Aberffraw.
Aberffraw is a great holiday or short break destination and a superb base in which to explore the rest of Anglesey’s towns and villages. The island is full of history and activities to keep the most active entertained.
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