What to See & Do in Holyhead
Sights
Around Holyhead there are excellent fishing, golfing and sailing facilities, and plenty of opportunities for scenic walks.
The maritime museum in Holyhead contains exhibitions on the scores of shipwrecks in the vicinity.
Perhaps the most spectacular place to visit in Anglesey is the South Stack Lighthouse, to the north west of Holyhead. It is landmark and orientation light for vessels crossing the Irish Sea to and from the ports of Holyhead and Dun Laoghaire.
Eating
The town centre has a number of good places to eat. The specialty is of course seafood, from boiled winkles to lobsters, most of it from the waters of the Llyn Peninsula. Anglesey oysters, dressed crab, moules marinière and scallops in herb butter are surely enough to whet the most jaded appetite!
Accommodation
There are a range of places for the visitor to stay and Holyhead is often used as an overnight stop on the way to, or from, holidaying in Ireland or as a centre for touring the island of Anglesey itself.
Transport
Holyhead is perhaps best known for its busy ferry port, handling more than 2 million passengers each year. Stena Line, Europe’s biggest ferry company, operates from the port, as do Irish Ferries. Ferries sail to Dublin and Dún Laoghaire in Ireland and this forms the principal link for surface transport from central and northern England and Wales to Ireland.
In 2001, work was completed on the extension of the A55 North Wales Expressway from the Britannia Bridge to Holyhead, giving the town a dual carriageway connection to North Wales and the main British motorway network.
Holyhead is currently the terminus of the North Wales Coast Line and is served by the Virgin Trains and Arriva Trains Wales services.
