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Holyhead (Caergybi, "Cybi's fort") is a town in Wales and a major Irish Sea port serving Ireland. [1]

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A5 road (Great Britain)

The A5 London Holyhead Trunk Road is a major road in England and Wales.

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A55 road

The A55, also known as the North Wales Expressway (Welsh: Gwibffordd Gogledd Cymru) is a major road in Britain.

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Admiralty Arch, Holyhead

Admiralty Arch, located in Holyhead, Anglesey, was built in 1824 to mark the end of Thomas Telford's A5 road.

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Alex Lynch

Alexander Patrick Lynch (born 4 April 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Llandudno.

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Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island situated on the north coast of Wales with an area of.

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Anglesey Aluminium

Anglesey Aluminium Metal Ltd, which shut down on 30 September 2009, was a joint venture between the Rio Tinto Group and Kaiser Aluminum.

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Anglesey Coastal Path

The Anglesey Coastal Path (formally the Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path) is a long-distance footpath around the island of Anglesey in North Wales.

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Anglesey League

The Anglesey Football League (currently the Kon-X Wales Anglesey Football League, for sponsorship reasons) is a football league on Anglesey, Wales, and is equivalent to the sixth level of the Welsh football league system in North Wales.

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Arriva Trains Wales

Arriva Trains Wales (Trenau Arriva Cymru) (ATW) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that operates the Wales & Borders franchise.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Barbara Margaret Trimble

Barbara Margaret Trimble (born 21 February 1921 in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales – d. 1995) was a British writer of over 20 crime, thriller and romance novels from 1967 to 1991, under the names of Margaret Blake, B. M. Gill and Barbara Gilmour.

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Ben Crystal

Ben Crystal (born 1977) is an English actor, author, and producer, best known for his work on performing and promoting William Shakespeare using original practices, especially in the "original pronunciation".

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Birmingham International railway station

Birmingham International is a railway station located in Solihull in the West Midlands, to the east of the city of Birmingham, England.

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Breakwater (structure)

Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal management or to protect an anchorage from the effects of both weather and longshore drift.

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Britannia Bridge

Britannia Bridge (Pont Britannia) is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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Caergybi (electoral ward)

Caergybi is an electoral ward in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.

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Cardiff Central railway station

Cardiff Central railway station (Caerdydd Canolog) is a major railway station on the South Wales Main Line in Cardiff, United Kingdom and one of two hubs of the city's urban rail network.

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Castra

In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (plural castra) was a building, or plot of land, used as a fortified military camp.

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Ceinwen Rowlands

Ceinwen Rowlands (15 January 1905 – 12 June 1983) was a Welsh concert soprano and recording artist.

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Cemaes

Cemaes is a village on the north coast of Anglesey in Wales, sited on Cemaes Bay, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which is partly owned by the National Trust.

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Chamber tomb

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures.

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Chester and Holyhead Railway

The Chester and Holyhead Railway was incorporated out of a proposal to link Holyhead, the traditional port for the Irish Mail, with London by way of the existing Chester and Crewe Railway, and what is now the West Coast Main Line.

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Christian monasticism

Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of individuals who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship.

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Church in Wales

The Church in Wales (Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.

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Coasteering

Coasteering is a physical activity that encompasses movement along the intertidal zone of a rocky coastline on foot or by swimming, without the aid of boats, surf boards or other craft.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Community (Wales)

A community (cymuned) is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales.

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Community council

A community council is a public representative body in Great Britain.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.

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County

A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes,Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations.

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Cybi

Saint Cybi (in Welsh) or Saint Cuby (in Cornish) was a 6th-century Cornish bishop, saint and, briefly, king, who worked largely in North Wales: his biography is recorded in two slightly variant medieval 'lives'.

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Cymru Alliance

The Cymru Alliance League (known for sponsorship reasons as Huws Gray Alliance) is a football league and forms the second level of the Welsh football league system in north and central Wales.

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Cymyran Strait

Cymyran Strait is a strait that runs from Beddmanarch Bay in the north to Cymyran Bay in the south between the islands of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) and Holy Island (Ynys Cybi).

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David Crystal

David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic and author.

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Dawn French

Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Holyhead, Wales.

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Death of Gareth Williams

Gareth Williams (26 September 1978 –) was a Welsh mathematician and employee of GCHQ seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a Security Service safe house flat in Pimlico, London, on 23 August 2010.

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Donough O'Brien (cricketer)

Donough O'Brien (29 August 1879 – 23 September 1953) was a Welsh-born Irish cricketer.

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Dual carriageway

A dual carriageway (British English) or divided highway (American English) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ensemble scolaire Le Bon Sauveur

Ensemble Scolaire Le Bon Sauveur is a private school in Le Vésinet, Yvelines, France, in the Paris metropolitan area.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European route E22

The European route E 22 is one of the longest European routes.

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Euston railway station

Euston railway station (also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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Four Mile Bridge

Four Mile Bridge (Pontrhydybont / Pont-rhydbont / Pontrhypont) is a village and bridge across the Cymyran Strait in Wales.

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Francis Dodd (artist)

Francis Edgar Dodd (29 November 1874 – 7 March 1949) was a British portrait painter, landscape artist and printmaker.

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Gareth Evans (weightlifter)

Gareth Irfon Evans (born 18 April 1986) is a Welsh and British weightlifter.

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George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover following the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.

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Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead (née Parry; born 7 July 1944) is a British politician and former teacher.

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Government Communications Headquarters

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.

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Greystones

Greystones is a coastal town and seaside resort in County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Gwynedd

Gwynedd is a county in Wales, sharing borders with Powys, Conwy, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and Ceredigion over the River Dyfi.

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Gwynedd League

The Gwynedd Football League is a football league at the fifth level of the Welsh football league system in north-west Wales.

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Hillfort

A hillfort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage.

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Holy Island, Anglesey

Holy Island (Ynys Gybi, 'the island of (Saint) Cybi') is an island on the western side of the larger Isle of Anglesey, Wales, from which it is separated by a narrow, winding channel.

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Holyhead Breakwater

Holyhead Breakwater is situated at the north-western end of Holyhead on the island of Anglesey in North Wales.

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Holyhead Hotspur F.C.

Holyhead Hotspur Football Club is a football club based in Holyhead, Anglesey playing in the Cymru Alliance (part of the Welsh football league system).

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Holyhead Maritime Museum

The Holyhead Maritime Museum is a maritime museum located in Holyhead, North Wales.

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Holyhead Mountain

Holyhead Mountain (Mynydd Tŵr in Welsh: from (pen)twr, meaning "tower") is the highest mountain on Holy Island, Anglesey, and the highest in the county of Anglesey, north Wales.

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Holyhead railway station

Holyhead railway station (Gorsaf reilffordd Caergybi) serves the Welsh town of Holyhead (Caergybi) on Holy Island, Anglesey.

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Holyhead Town Council

Holyhead Town Council is an elected community council serving the town of Holyhead in Anglesey, Wales.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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International E-road network

The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Irish Ferries

Irish Ferries is a maritime transport company that operates passenger and freight services on routes between Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe, including Dublin Port–Holyhead; Rosslare Europort to Pembroke as well as Dublin Port-Cherbourg and Rosslare to Cherbourg and Roscoff in France The company is a division of the Irish Continental Group (ICG) which trades on the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.

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Isle of Anglesey County Council

The Isle of Anglesey County Council (Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn) is the governing body for the county of Anglesey, one of the unitary authority areas of Wales.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Jason Evans

Jason Evans (born 1968) is a Welsh photographer and lecturer on photography.

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Jediism

Jediism (or Jedism) is a philosophy mainly based on the depiction of the Jedi characters in Star Wars media.

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Jetty

A jetty is a structure that projects from the land out into water.

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John Russell (VC)

Captain John Fox Russell VC MC (27 January 1893 – 6 November 1917) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley

John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley (26 November 1766 – 23 October 1850), known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was a British peer and politician.

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John Walpole Willis

John Walpole Willis (4 January 1793 – 10 September 1877) was a Welsh-born judge, and a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

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Kevin Johnson (venture capitalist)

Kevin Johnson (born 30 August 1960 in Holyhead, Wales) is a Partner at medicxi, a venture capital firm focused on life sciences investments based on the asset-centric approach to investing.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lifeboat (rescue)

A rescue lifeboat is a boat rescue craft which is used to attend a vessel in distress, or its survivors, to rescue crew and passengers.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Lillie Goodisson

Lillie Elizabeth Goodisson (née Price; - 10 January 1947) was a Welsh Australian nurse and a pioneer of family planning in New South Wales.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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List of settlements in Anglesey by population

This is a guide to the size of settlements in Anglesey based on the data from the article on each town.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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Mail coach

In Great Britain, a mail coach was a stagecoach built to a Post Office-approved design operated by an independent contractor to carry long-distance mail for the Post Office.

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Manchester Piccadilly station

Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England.

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Menhir

A menhir (from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"), standing stone, orthostat, lith or masseba/matseva is a large manmade upright stone.

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Met Office

The Met Office (officially the Meteorological Office) is the United Kingdom's national weather service.

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National Eisteddfod of Wales

The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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North Wales Coast Line

The North Wales Coast Line (Rheilffordd Arfordir Gogledd Cymru), also known as the North Wales Main Line, is the railway line from Crewe to Holyhead.

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Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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Port of Holyhead

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Port of Liverpool

The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Private finance initiative

The private finance initiative (PFI) is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" (PPPs) where private firms are contracted to complete and manage public projects.

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R. S. Thomas

Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales.

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RAF Valley

Royal Air Force Valley or more simply RAF Valley (Llu Awyr Brenhinol Y Fali) is a Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, Wales, and which is also used as Anglesey Airport.

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Ray Williams (weightlifter)

Raymond "Ray" Williams (born 9 September 1959 in Holyhead, North Wales) is a Welsh weightlifter.

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Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group is an Australian-British multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporations.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Royal Mail

Royal Mail plc (Post Brenhinol; a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516.

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Shrewsbury railway station

Shrewsbury railway station is in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

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South Stack

South Stack (Ynys Lawd) is an island situated just off Holy Island on the northwest coast of Anglesey.

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St Cybi's Church

St Cybi's Church is a mediaeval church near the Roman Caer Gybi in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.

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Stanley Embankment

The Stanley Embankment (known locally as the Cob) is a railway, road and cycleway embankment that connects the Island of Anglesey and Holy Island, Wales.

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Stena Line

Stena Line is one of the largest ferry operators in the world.

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The Celtic Gateway

The Celtic Gateway (Porth Celtaidd) is a stainless steel pedestrian and cycle bridge located in Anglesey, Wales.

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Thomas Harrison (architect)

Thomas Harrison (7 August (baptised) 1744 – 29 March 1829) was an English architect and bridge engineer who trained in Rome, where he studied classical architecture.

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Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.

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Toll road

A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage.

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Tony Roberts (footballer)

Anthony Mark Roberts (born 4 August 1969) is a Welsh former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Queens Park Rangers, Millwall and Dagenham & Redbridge.

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Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.

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Ucheldre Centre

The Ucheldre Centre is an arts centre located in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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Virgin Trains

Virgin Trains (legal name West Coast Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Rail Group that has operated the InterCity West Coast franchise since 9 March 1997.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wales national football team

The Wales national football team (Tîm pêl-droed cenedlaethol Cymru) represents Wales in international football.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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Wrexham General railway station

Wrexham General railway station (Wrecsam Cyffredinol) is a main line railway station and the main railway station serving Wrexham, north-east Wales.

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Wylfa Nuclear Power Station

Wylfa Nuclear Power Station (Atomfa'r Wylfa) is a former Magnox power station situated west of Cemaes Bay on the island of Anglesey, North Wales.

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Ynys Môn (Assembly constituency)

Ynys Môn (Anglesey) is a constituency of the National Assembly for Wales.

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Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency)

Ynys Môn (officially called Anglesey until 1983) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi

Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi was the first comprehensive school in England and Wales, opening in 1949 as Holyhead County School.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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Redirects here:

Caergybi, Ceargybi, Hollyhead, Holy Head, Holyhead, Wales.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyhead

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