Moelfre, Anglesey

Moelfre
The harbour-front and seawall, circa 1966
Moelfre is located in Anglesey
Moelfre
Moelfre
Location within Anglesey
Population1,064 [1]
OS grid referenceSH5186
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMOELFRE
Postcode districtLL72
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Anglesey

53°21′13″N 4°14′08″W / 53.35351°N 4.2356°W / 53.35351; -4.2356


Map of the community

Moelfre ([ˈmɔɨ̯lvrɛ] ) is a village, a community and, until 2012, an electoral ward on the north-east coast of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The community area covers the village and harbour, and several smaller, dispersed settlements. It includes six scheduled Iron Age hut groups and many other sites of archaeological interest. The harbour was formerly a local fishing port; a lifeboat station has been based here since 1854. Among many shipwrecks off the coast was that of the Royal Charter in 1859. Near the modernised lifeboat station is the RNLI Seawatch Centre. The coastline includes a rocky headland north of the village and a large sandy beach at Lligwy Bay, both traversed by the Anglesey Coastal Path. The 2011 census measured the village population as 710.[2] It was estimated at 614 in 2019.

  1. ^ 2011 UK census. Office for National Statistics : Neighbourhood Statistics : Census 2011 : Isle of Anglesey
  2. ^ "Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics". Nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2021.