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Also known as Llanfaethlu Community

Llanfaethlu is a village and community in the north west of Anglesey, in north-west Wales. The community population taken at the 2011 Census was 553. The village takes its name from the Church of Saint Maethlu. The community includes Llanfwrog.

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Place details

Locality
Holyhead
Region
Cymru / Wales
Country
United Kingdom
Timezone
Europe/London

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Key facts

UK place.country
Wales
UK place.official_name
Llanfaethlu
UK place.static_image_name
Eglwys Llanfaethlu - geograph.org.uk - 1390317.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
Church of Saint Maethlu, Llanfaethlu
UK place.population
553
UK place.population_ref
(2011)
UK place.unitary_wales
Anglesey
UK place.lieutenancy_wales
Gwynedd
UK place.constituency_westminster
Ynys Môn
UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
Ynys Môn
UK place.post_town
Holyhead
UK place.postcode_district
LL65
UK place.postcode_area
LL
UK place.dial_code
01407
UK place.module
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
community
Official name
Llanfaethlu
Population
553
Area
1808
Time zone
UTC±00:00
Shares border with
Tref Alaw
Image
Eglwys Llanfaethlu - geograph.org.uk - 1390317.jpg
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Commons category
Llanfaethlu
inception
1974-04-01
OS grid reference
SH3058785808
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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Governance
  • Shipwrecks
  • Protected areas
  • References

Llanfaethlu is a village and community in the north west of Anglesey, in north-west Wales. The community population taken at the 2011 Census was 553. The village takes its name from the Church of Saint Maethlu. The community includes Llanfwrog.

==History== There are two prehistoric scheduled monuments within Llanfaethlu Community. A hill fort with a single bank and ditch lies on a headland near the coastal hamlet of Tre-Fadog, overlooking the sandy bay of Port Trefadog. To the east of the village is the Capel Soar Standing Stone, a large and prominent standing stone visible from the A5025 and close to Soar Baptist Chapel. It is a slab, 3.2 metres (10 ft) high, and 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) wide at its base, tapering to a rounded top. Roman activity was shown by a small hoard of Roman coins, found in 1929 on a hill to the west of the church, some having been minted when Domitian was emperor, around 90 AD.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Llanfaethlu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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