Rhosybol
| Rhosybol | |
| Anglesey | |
|---|---|
 Carreg Leidr, Rhosybol | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SH425882 |
| Location: | 53°22’5"N, 4°22’5"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | LL68 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Anglesey |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Ynys Môn |
Rhosybol (meaning: Moor in the Hollow) is a village on Anglesey. The community population at the 2011 census was 1,078.
The village is in te north of the island, south of the town of Amlwch, close to both Llyn Alaw, Anglesey's largest body of water on the island, and Parys Mountain, the site of the historic copper mines: the mountain stands just to the north of Rhosybol. It is to the mines that the village owes its existence as it was one of several built to house the miners.[1] During the 1960s noted painter Kyffin Williams produced an oil painting of the village.[2]
Rhosybol is beside n the B5111 road from Amlwch to Llannerch-y-medd. Just to the east of the village is the Trysglwyn Wind Farm, whose site covers about 250 acres. Much of the land is pasture where livestock can graze to the feet of the turbines. A pond has been provided and patches of woodland have been planted to enhance the wildlife value of the site. An information board is situated at the site entrance about 300 yards south-east of the neighbouring farm, Trysglwyn Fawr.[3]
Rhosybol has a post office[4] which is incorporated within its small corner shop. There is also a primary school,[5] in the playground of which is the village's war memorial clock tower. The memorial is unusual in that it only shows the names of those who fell in the First World War and not those in the Second.[6]
The village church, Christ Church[7] is now disused, as is the chapel named Bethania. A further chapel, Capel Gorslwyd, is open for worship.[1]
A Welsh-medium primary school, Ysgol Gynradd Rhosybol, stands in the village.
Villages and hamlets in the community include Llandyfrydog, Rhosgoch, Penbol and Penygraigwen.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Rhosybol". All About Anglesey. http://www.allaboutanglesey.co.uk/places-p-z/rhosybol.
- ↑ "Rhosybol | Art UK Art UK | Discover Artworks Rhosybol". https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/rhosybol-120440.
- ↑ "Trysglwyn Wind Farm". RWE Innogy International. http://www.rwe.com/web/cms/en/311508/rwe-innogy/sites/wind-onshore/united-kingdom/in-operation/summary/.
- ↑ "Branch Finder | Post Office". http://www.postofficeopeninghours.co.uk/Amlwch_Rhosybol-Post-Office.htm.
- ↑ "Ysgol Gymuned Rhosybol". http://www.estyn.gov.uk/english/provider/6602165.
- ↑ "Rhosybol War Memorials on the Isle of Anglesey". http://www.anglesey.info/rhosybol-war-memorials.htm.
- ↑ Site details: Christ Church, Rhosybol (RCAHMW)
