Moelfre Holiday Cottages

More About Holiday Cottages in Moelfre

Holiday cottages in Moelfre put the coast path on the doorstep. You can walk it north to the wide sandy beach at Lligwy, about two miles along the shore. The little cove at Traeth yr Ora lies on the way. There is not a great deal to do here in the organised sense, which is the point of the place.

Lligwy, up the coast path, is the other name worth knowing here. The village end is closer to the boats, and Lligwy is closer to the sand.

Lligwy is more than half a mile wide at its widest, and you can swim, fish and try watersports there. Kitesurfers use it when the wind is in the east. Traeth yr Ora, on the way, is a steep walk down and has places to fish from.

The beach car park in Moelfre is pay and display. You can eat at the Kinmel Arms next to it, which has tables by a bay window looking over the sea.

In summer the lifeboat station runs guided tours behind the scenes. Seawatch next door is free to go into.

You can spot sea birds from the path by holiday cottages in Moelfre, so bring binoculars. Dolphins and porpoises are not uncommon on this stretch of coast.

Lligwy beach

At Lligwy there is a car park, a beach shop and toilets. You can walk back by the road inland from the car park. Capel Lligwy and the path to Din Lligwy lie about 850 metres up it.

History and the herring

Many holiday cottages in Moelfre were once working homes, and the people who lived in them worked the sea. Through the 1800s the village was full of fishermen, seamen, mariners and the odd ship owner. The old rows, Y Swnt down by the beach and Pen Stryd behind it, were built as working houses. They were small, solid and turned away from the weather.

Herring paid for a good deal of it. The autumn fishery drew boats and hands from well beyond the village. The women and children did the salting and packing. By the early twentieth century steam trains were laid on specially to run Anglesey herring across to Liverpool. Cod was the other fishery. It was big enough that at Moelfre they used cod heads to manure the fields.

Small boats still go out from the cove for lobster and crab. That is more than can be said for most villages this size. Ann's Pantry, the café above the slip, reaches its hundredth year in 2026. The RNLI Seawatch Centre by the shore reopens each spring with a retired lifeboat inside.