Amlwch is one of the most northward community in Wales and is a neighborhood. It is located on the north coastline of the Island of Anglesey, on the A5025 which attaches it to Holyhead and also to Menai Bridge. In addition to Amlwch community and Amlwch Port, various other negotiations within the area include Burwen, Porthllethog/Bull Bay and also Pentrefelin. The community has a beach in Llaneilian, and also it has substantial seaside cliffs. Tourist is a vital aspect of the local economy. At one time it was a growing mining town that came to be the centre of a substantial international sell copper ore. The harbour inlet came to be a busy port as well as considerable shipbuilding and also ship repair service centre, as well as an embarkation point with watercrafts cruising to the Island of Guy and to Liverpool. The name Amlwch-- a referral to the website of the town's harbour, Porth Amlwch-- originates from Welsh am ("about, on or around") and also llwch (an old word meaning "inlet, creek" - comparable to the Gaelic word "loch" for a body of water). On 23 November 1981, the first tornado of the record-breaking 1981 UK tornado outbreak, an F1/T2 tornado, gone through Amlwch. At the 2011 census the community had a population of 3,789.
