Amlwch is a small community in Anglesey, although it is rural it is not a quaint or especially pleasant location.

Understand

It is the northernmost town in Wales. In the 19th century it was a major copper mining and shipping town.

Get in

The Amlwch bypass

It is on the A5025 north of Moelfre

There are regional buses from most parts of the island as well as Bangor.

See

Melin Adda, Amlwch

• 1 Copper Kingdom Centre. interactive displays describing the history of copper mining in the area 
• 2 Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride. 1930s concrete church 

Eat

• 1 Trecastell Hotel, Bull Bay, ☏ +44 1407 832758. 

Sleep

View down to village from near the Bull Bay Hotel, Porthllechog-Bull Bay

• 1 Lastra Farm Hotel, Lon Amlwch, ☏ +44 1407 830906.