Holyhead Hotels & B&Bs

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Trearddur Bay's sand is a few minutes south. You can walk the cliff coast of Holy Island from the end of the streets.

Book one of the hotels here the night before an early sailing and the morning takes care of itself. The port sits right in the town, so nobody starts the day with a drive.

Walks and views

Penrhos, on the way into town, is the green corner most visitors drive straight past. It has woods and shore walks on the old estate, open and free. The Inland Sea lies on one side, the narrow channel between Holy Island and the rest of Anglesey.

South Stack is the other direction, west past Holyhead Mountain. The reserve is open all the time. The lighthouse tower is the part to plan for. It opens seasonally and shuts whenever the wind tops thirty miles an hour, so ring before you make the trip out.

Walk the front in the evening. You can watch the Dublin ferries swing out past the breakwater while the lights come on along the shore.

From your hotel you can start the Anglesey Coastal Path at the Maritime Museum above Newry Beach. A Holyhead at War exhibition sits there inside a reconstructed air-raid shelter.

The path runs through Breakwater Country Park, which has toilets and an information centre. Peregrine falcons hunt over its gorse. In summer you can watch the Holyhead Model Boat Club sail on the pond on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons.

You can walk from Breakwater Country Park over Holyhead Mountain to South Stack. The route is 2.75 miles and is rated moderately challenging.

The Harbourfront Bistro on Newry Beach serves modern British food, with views over the sea. Holyhead Market Hall, reopened in 2019, now houses the library and a local history centre.

The road to Ireland

Hotels here have been putting travellers up for longer than almost anywhere in Wales. Everyone bound for Ireland funnelled through the town. Until 1823 the only way onto Holy Island by land was the old bridge at Four Mile Bridge. It has been recorded as a crossing since 1530. Then Thomas Telford's road arrived. The Stanley Embankment carried it straight across the Inland Sea, started in 1822 and open the year after.

At the harbour the Admiralty Arch went up in 1824 to mark the road's end. This was the point where the route from London ran out and the sea began. George IV had passed through on his way to Dublin three years earlier.