Anglesey Coalfield, Malltraeth Marsh

Name: Anglesey Coalfield
Address: Malltraeth Marsh, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Malltraeth Marsh

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The Anglesey Coalfield is a minor British coalfield. Although it is situated in north-west Wales, this isolated coalfield on Anglesey is not usually considered to form a part of the North Wales Coalfield which lies in Flintshire and Denbighshire in north-east Wales although both measures were formed during the Carboniferous period. Stretching from Nant and Hirdrefaig in the Pentre Berw area along Cors Ddyga and under the sea at Malltraeth village which was called 'yr Iard' or 'Iard Malltraeth'. On the western side of the Afon Cefni lies Cors Malltraeth. It was named after Cwmwd Malltraeth which was the old Welsh way of dividing the Isle of Mona by the Welsh Princes and the Church. Both coalfields measure around 9 miles long. ()

Coordinates: 53°12'58"N, 4°19'26"W

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Anglesey Coalfield – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Oriel Ynys Môn, Caer Lêb, St Deiniol's Church, Llangefni Town Hall.

3.3 miN
Art gallery, Shopping, History museum
Oriel Ynys Môn, Llangefni
85 min walk • Oriel Môn is a museum and arts centre located in Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. A two-part centre, the History Gallery provides an insight into the island's culture, history and environment. The Art Gallery has a changing programme of exhibitions, encompassing art, craft, drama, sculpture and social history.
2.8 miSE
Prehistoric site
Caer Lêb, Anglesey
72 min walk • Caer Lêb is a Roman and mediaeval site on the Welsh island of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. Its name means "Leaven Castle". It is a low-lying site near the Afon Braint with a double row of pentangular banks and marshy ditches. The original entrance was on the east, other gaps are modern and caused by animals.
2.9 miE
Church
St Deiniol's Church, Anglesey
75 min walk • St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, is a small 19th-century parish church in the centre of Llanddaniel Fab, a village in Anglesey, north Wales. The first church in this location is said to have been established by St Deiniol Fab in 616. He was the son of St Deiniol, the first Bishop of Bangor.
2.8 miN
City hall
Llangefni Town Hall, Llangefni
71 min walk • Llangefni Town Hall is a civic building dating back to the mid 19th-century, in the town of Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building.
2.9 miN
Church
St Cyngar's Church, Anglesey
75 min walk • St Cyngar's Church is a church in the town of Llangefni in Anglesey, Wales. The building dates from 1824. It was designated a Grade II listed building on 8 July 1952.
2.8 miSE
Prehistoric site
Castell Bryn Gwyn, Anglesey
72 min walk • Castell Bryn Gwyn is a prehistoric site on the Isle of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. It is a circular clay and gravel bank covered with grass, still some 1.5m high and revetted externally by stone walls, which surround a level area some 54 metres in diameter.
2.1 miSE
Prehistoric site
Bodowyr, Anglesey
54 min walk • Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber made of a few large stacked stones in a farmer's field on the north Wales island of Anglesey. It is located at Bodowyr Farm, 1.25 mi east of Llangaffo, off the B4419 road.
2.8 miS
Church
St Mary's Church, Anglesey
72 min walk • St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-y-Cwmwd is a small medieval parish church near the village of Dwyran, in Anglesey, north Wales. The building probably dates from the 15th century, with some alterations. It contains a 12th-century carved stone font and a 13th-century decorated coffin lid.
1.4 miN
Church
St Cristiolus's Church, Anglesey
36 min walk • St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus is a medieval church near the village of Llangristiolus, in Anglesey, north Wales. The village, about 1 mile from the building, takes its name from the church. Reputedly founded by St Cristiolus in 610, the present building dates from the 12th and 13th centuries.
1.7 miS
Church
St Caffo's Church, Anglesey
45 min walk • St Caffo's Church, Llangaffo is a 19th-century church, in the south of Anglesey, north Wales, about 5 miles from the county town, Llangefni. It was constructed in 1846 to replace the previous medieval church in the village of Llangaffo.
2.8 miS
Prehistoric site
Bryn Gwyn stones, Anglesey
73 min walk • The Bryn Gwyn stones stand about 280 metres to the south-west of Castell Bryn Gwyn, on the low ridge some 2 m above the valley of the Afon Braint on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. They are the tallest standing stones in Wales, nearly 4 m high.