Ynys Gaint

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Ynys Gaint is a small island in the Menai Strait connected to the town of Menai Bridge on Anglesey by a causeway, and also connected by a concrete bridge erected by Sir Guy Fison (a previous owner of the island) in the 1930s.

Ynys Gaint lies close to the Anglesey shore at OS reference Template:Getrmapecho, between Ynys Faelog and Ynys Castell.

Between 1942 and 1944 the island housed a Royal Air Force air-sea rescue unit, with several high speed launches, and a small part of the island is still occupied by the MOD with an Army Cadet hut and also a building formerly used by the Naval Reserves (now Volunteers). There are also two privately owned residential properties on Ynys Gaint. One of these had a portion of its garden designed by the late Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, famed for his creation of the village of Portmeirion, in Caernarfonshire.

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