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unusual facts about Newborough, Anglesey


Prichard-Jones baronets

It was created on 15 July 1910 for John Jones, head of Dickins and Jones (Limited) and founder of the Prichard-Jones Institute and Cottage Homes, Newborough, Anglesey.


1942 in archaeology

A hoard of La Tène metalwork is found during the building of a military airfield in Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey.

2003 in birding and ornithology

A male Black Lark at South Stack, Anglesey in June was initially thought to be Britain's first, and was seen by thousands of birders; it subsequently transpired that an earlier record, also a male, from Spurn, east Yorkshire in 1984 had just recently been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Committee, so making the South Stack bird Britain's second

2007 Ginetta Junior Championship season

The season began at Anglesey on 30 June and concluded after 16 races over 7 events at Brands Hatch on 27 October.

A5025 road

The A5025 is a British 'A' road that runs from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll to Valley in Anglesey, Wales.

Anglesea

Misspelling of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), an island off the northwest coast of Wales

Anglesey Circuit

The TV motoring programme Fifth Gear regularly used the Anglesey circuit for the 'Shoot Out' segment of the show.

Arfon

Arfon, from the Welsh for "Facing Anglesey", refers to the southern shore of the Menai Strait, the part of mainland Wales closest to the island of Anglesey.

Bangor Mountain

There are several rocky outcrops at high points on the mountain providing panoramic views of the city centre, the Menai Strait and over to the east of Anglesey, including the town of Beaumaris.

Buddleja davidii 'Corinne Tremaine'

Buddleja davidii 'Corinne Tremaine' is a cultivar raised at the The Herb Garden & Historical Plant Nursery on Anglesey, north Wales.

Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes

On 29 December 1808, he was taken prisoner in the action of Benavente by the British cavalry under Henry Paget (later Lord Uxbridge, and subsequently Marquess of Anglesey).

Custos Rotulorum of Anglesey

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Anglesey.

Donaghadee lighthouse

Rock blasted from the sea bed, within the harbour area and further south in what became known as the Quarry Hole at Meetinghouse Point, was used to form the outer slopes of the two piers; but the inner faces were built of limestone from the Moelfre quarries of Anglesea.

Dorina Neave

Apart from her books about Turkey, Lady Dorina has historical significance as the last of the "landed gentry" to live in Dagnam Park, before the policies of Britain's post-war Labour government constrained her to reside in her second home in Anglesey, owing to a compulsory purchase order made by the LCC.

Edern ap Nudd

Edern is the patron saint of two churches in Wales: St Edern's Church, Bodedern in Anglesey, and the church in the village of Edern, Gwynedd.

Epipactis dunensis

Dune helleborine is a British endemic species and in Britain limited to three main areas, the sand-dunes of Anglesey, dunes on the Fylde coast and in the valley of the River Tyne where it has colonised old metal mine workings.

Four Mile Bridge

The bridge is one of three connecting the Anglesey mainland to the smaller Holy Island and was the sole route until the construction of the Stanley Embankment in 1823.

GeoMôn

Originally geoconservation on Anglesey was administered by the Gwynedd and Mon RIGS group, but a decision was taken to apply for Geopark membership.

Glegir Mawr SSSI

It is a stony coastal headland and has been designated principally because of the occurrence of Tuberaria guttata the Spotted Rockrose which is a nationally rare plant and also the County flower of Anglesey.

Gruffudd ap Cynan

Gruffudd landed on Anglesey with an Irish force, and with the assistance of troops provided by the Norman Robert of Rhuddlan first defeated and killed Cynwrig ap Rhiwallon, an ally of Trahaearn who held Llŷn, then defeated Trahaearn himself in the battle of Gwaed Erw in Meirionnydd and gained control of Gwynedd.

Isla de Mona

Mona is also an ancient or poetic name for the island of Anglesey or the Isle of Man.

John Annesley, 4th Earl of Anglesey

In 1710, shortly before his death, Anglesey was appointed as Vice Treasurer, Receiver-General and Paymaster of the Forces for Ireland and was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council.

Legends car racing

2007 saw all of the races took place at Knockhill, but the series has organised “away” rounds at Croft, Oulton Park, Donington Park, Cadwell Park and Anglesey in recent years.

Maelgwn

Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd (died c. 1173), son of Owain Gwynedd and ruler of Anglesey

Malcolm Parry

In the first series of Building on the Past, Parry visited the towns of Newport, Newtown, Blaenavon, Carmarthen, Criccieth and Machynlleth, and in the second series Anglesey, Swansea, Presteigne, Lampeter, Merthyr, and Haverfordwest, relating the history of each town to its architecture.

Malltraeth Marsh

A short tunnel—the first one in Anglesey—pierces the low hills which extend along the west side of Malltraeth Marsh before reaching Bodorgan railway station.

Merthyr Line

In November 2009, WAG sponsored Network Rail in a feasibility study to reopening both the section to Hirwaun, and parts of the former Anglesey Central Railway between Llangefni on Anglesey, and Bangor.

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.

Newborough, Staffordshire

The current building was consecrated in 1901, after being built by the architect John Oldrid Scott.

Nidan

He is the patron saint of two churches in Anglesey: St Nidan's Church, Llanidan, built in the 19th century, and its medieval predecessor, the Old Church of St Nidan, Llanidan.

He was the confessor for the monastery headed by St Seiriol at Penmon and established a church at what is now known as Llanidan (which are both places on the Welsh island of Anglesey).

Old Church of St Afran, St Ieuan and St Sannan, Llantrisant

The Old Church of St Afran, St Ieuan and St Sannan, Llantrisant, is a redundant church in the settlement of Llantrisant, Anglesey, Wales.

Queen Elizabeth II Dock

Subsequent increases in tanker size since the dock was built has meant that the largest tankers use the Tranmere Oil Terminal and at offshore berths at Anglesey in North Wales.

Richard Annesley

Richard Annesley, 3rd Baron Altham (1655–1701), Dean of Exeter and son of Arthur, 1st Earl of Anglesey

Robert ap Huw

Robert ap Huw was born circa 1580, growing up in the settlement of Llanddeusant on the island of Anglesey.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Wrexham

The diocese covers an area of 8,361 km² of the ancient counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire (the local government areas of Conwy, Anglesey, Denbighshire and Flintshire, Gwynedd, Wrexham and the former Montgomeryshire).

Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey

Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan, Marchioness of Anglesey, DBE, LVO (born 4 December 1924, better known as Dame Shirley Paget) is a writer and the daughter of novelists Charles Langbridge Morgan and Hilda Vaughan.

South Stack

The idea for the location was Bryan Ferry's, after he saw a TV documentary about lava flows and rock formations in Anglesey, in which South Stack was heavily featured.

St Mary's Church, Rhodogeidio

St Mary's Church, Rhodogeidio is a small medieval church, dating from the 15th century, near Llannerch-y-medd, in Anglesey, north Wales.

It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Llannerch-y-medd, towards the north of Anglesey.

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn is a medieval church near Aberffraw in Anglesey, north Wales.

St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn

It was then extended by dismantling and reassembling another Anglesey church, St Enghenedl's, at the west end of the building.

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.

Taxation in medieval England

Although other early Anglo-Saxon kings are not mentioned as collecting taxes, the medieval writer Bede does mention that land in Anglesey and the Isle of Man were divided up in hides, defined in Ine's law as a unit of land that could be used for collecting food and other goods from the king's subjects.

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.

The Uncommercial Traveller

The Royal Charter was driven ashore on the east coast of Anglesey just north of the village of Moelfre in the early hours of the morning of the 26th, eventually being smashed to pieces against the rocks, with the loss of over 450 lives.

Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry

After 1828 he became a member of the private cabinet of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey and kept horses ready at Lyons for impromptu meetings when Anglesey was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1828 to 1829 (when he was popular), and from 1830 to1834 (when he was less popular).

Victorian Military Society

The Marquis of Anglesey, the distinguished historian of the British Cavalry, became the Society’s president and the late Stanley Baker, the actor and producer of the film Zulu, became the Society’s first vice-president.

Ynys Feurig

The islands are important for their tern colony, in particular for Roseate Tern, for which this is the most regular breeding site on Anglesey, although numbers of breeding pairs are low currently (2005) compared with the past.

Ynys Gaint

Ynys Gaint is a small island in the Menai Strait connected to the town of Menai Bridge on Anglesey by a causeway (which still exists today) and also a concrete bridge erected by Sir William Fison (a previous owner of the island) in the 1930s.


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