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  • proper noun A town on the island of Angelsey, Wales

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Examples

  • Our tour of Wales finished yesterday and we spent last night in the town of Holyhead, which is famous for it's ferries over to Ireland and not too much else!

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • Can you help these guys on their Cardiff to Holyhead cycle challenge for charity - check out more and donate here.

    Cardiff today – Canton schools decision, Mansion House, and bus cut 2011

  • I had left Dublin just after my final exams, taken the boat first to Holyhead and then the night train to London and then the plane—my first plane journey—to Barcelona.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • Muse Bookshop43 Holyhead Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL572EU, 01248362072Tucked away in a small parade ofshops next to the university, Muse specialises in supplying new and secondhand academic textbooks to the 15,000 students who live in the area.

    Independent bookshops in Wales 2011

  • A senior anonymous source told the Holyhead & Anglesey Mail: The truth was staring us in the face all this time.

    Swimmingly simple 2009

  • Tourists came to marvel at the new suspension bridge across the Menai Straits, at what had until then been the sleepy Welsh village of Holyhead.

    The Lessons of the Turnpike Daniel Hannan 2012

  • A senior anonymous source told the Holyhead & Anglesey Mail: The truth was staring us in the face all this time.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • I had left Dublin just after my final exams, taken the boat first to Holyhead and then the night train to London and then the plane—my first plane journey—to Barcelona.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • It happened eventually, only to be cast aside when Labour had what passed as a majority back in 2003, by which time I was a registered voter living in Holyhead.

    Reflections and referenda 2009

  • It happened eventually, only to be cast aside when Labour had what passed as a majority back in 2003, by which time I was a registered voter living in Holyhead.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

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