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unusual facts about Isle of Anglesey



Edward Warburton Jones

Jones died in 1993 at Craig-y-Mor, the large coastal mansion inherited through his wife's family, in Treaddur Bay, Isle of Anglesey; he died at Headbourne Worthy.

Nero

While the governor Gaius Suetonius Paullinus and his troops were busy capturing the island of Mona (Anglesey) from the druids, the tribes of the southeast staged a revolt led by queen Boudica of the Iceni.

Ynys Môn

The Isle of Anglesey in Wales (Ynys Môn being the Welsh name for the isle)


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Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick baronets

He assumed in 1876 by Royal license the additional surname of Meyrick according to the will of Owen Fuller Meyrick, a relative on his mother's side, from whom he inherited the Bodorgan estate on the Isle of Anglesey.

The Forest House

In the early days of the conquest, when the Roman Legions are aggressively persecuting the Druids, the sanctuary of the Goddess on the isle of Mona is destroyed and its Druids are murdered and its priestesses are raped.