Holyhead, Wales
Anglesey's Ferry Terminal With A Mountain View
"You're Probably Just Passing Through, And That's Fine"
Official Coat of Arms
A shield bearing the longest breakwater in the United Kingdom rampant across a stormy Irish Sea, flanked by a departing ferry and a seagull mid-theft of someone's chips, surmounted by Holyhead Mountain wreathed in perpetual drizzle. The motto beneath reads, in rough translation, 'We Get You To Dublin On Time.'
TripAdvisor Review
★★★☆☆ 3/5
"Arrived off the Dublin ferry at 6am and honestly Holyhead did its best impression of a town that had also just woken up. The breakwater is genuinely impressive and Holy Mountain has a lovely walk with views over the Irish Sea, but the town centre itself felt like it was designed purely to funnel you back onto a boat or a train. Had a decent chippy though, and the aluminium works chimney is oddly majestic against the sunset. Would stop again but wouldn't necessarily stay."— Barry Fenwick, Chester
Property Listing
Charming maritime gateway property offering unrivalled access to the A55, the Dublin ferry, and absolutely nowhere else, with dramatic mountain backdrop and character-filled harbourside views of lorries queuing for customs. A rare opportunity to live somewhere everyone else only sees through a car window.
Twinned With
Dun Laoghaire — Both towns exist largely as a polite handshake between Wales and Ireland via ferry terminal.
Supporting Evidence
Holyhead Breakwater, completed in 1873, is the longest breakwater in the United Kingdom at nearly 1.7 miles long, built to shelter ships heading to and from Ireland.