Amlwch
Amlwch is the most northern town in Wales as well as is a neighborhood. It is positioned on the north shore of the Island of Anglesey, on the A5025 which attaches it to Holyhead and to Menai Bridge. As well as Amlwch town as well as Amlwch Port, other settlements within the neighborhood consist of Burwen, Porthllethog/Bull Bay and also Pentrefelin. The town has a beach in Llaneilian, and it has considerable coastal cliffs. Tourist is an essential component of the local economy. At one time it was a flourishing mining town that came to be the centre of a vast worldwide trade in copper ore. The harbour inlet ended up being a hectic port and also considerable shipbuilding and ship repair work centre, along with an embarkation factor with boats sailing to the Isle of Man and also to Liverpool. The name Amlwch-- a reference to the website of the town's harbour, Porth Amlwch-- originates from Welsh am ("around, 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 United Kingdom tornado episode, an F1/T2 tornado, passed through Amlwch. At the 2011 census the neighborhood had a population of 3,789.
