Llanfair-yn-Neubwll

Llanfair-yn-Neubwll

infobox UK place
country = Wales
welsh_name=Llanfair-yn-Neubwll
constituency_welsh_assembly=
official_name= Llanfair-yn-Neubwll
latitude= 53.258886
longitude= -4.546176
unitary_wales= Anglesey
lieutenancy_wales= Gwynedd
constituency_westminster= Ynys Môn
post_town= HOLYHEAD
postcode_district = LL65
postcode_area= LL
dial_code= 01407
os_grid_reference= SH302765
population= 2762 [ [http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=3&b=6077146&c=Llanfair-yn-Neubwll&d=14&e=16&g=413098&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1222514024093&enc=1 Office for National Statistics 2001] ]
Llanfair-yn-Neubwll is a community in the county of Anglesey in the north west of Wales. It contains the villages of Llanfairynneubwll, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn and Caergeiliog. Llanfair-yn-Neubwll. The community is heavily connected to the nearby Royal Air Force airfield, RAF Valley, established on Tywyn Trewan during the Second World War, and still in use. Due to the founding of the airfield, Llandfair-yn-Neubwll is the most Anglicised of the communities on Anglesey. ["The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales". John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg488 ISBN 9780708319536]

Llanfair-yn-Neubwll lies on the western coast of Anglesey looking out towards Holy Island. Notable geographic features of the area include the offshore rock Ynys Feirig and the eight lakes known as Ardal y Llynnoedd.

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