PUBLISHED BY SMITH AND SONS, 136, STRAND, AND MAY BE
HAD THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF ALL BOOKSELLERS
THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM.
1853.
INDEX.
| Page. | |
| Holyhead | [5] |
| The Church | [10] |
| Church Walls | [10] |
| The Filial Request | [11] |
| Population | [14] |
| Distances of places from Holyhead | [14] |
| Post Office | [14] |
| Delivery of Letters | [14] |
| Agents | [15] |
| Banks | [15] |
| Ancient Customs | [15] |
| Holyhead Pier | [18] |
| Grand Triumphal Arch | [19] |
| Holyhead Lighthouse | [20] |
| Captain Skinner’s Monument | [21] |
| Skerries Lighthouse | [22] |
| South Stack by Land | [23] |
| South Stack Lighthouse | [23] |
| South Stack by Water | [25] |
| South Stack Sea-birds | [29] |
| Reflections on the Three Lighthouses | [32] |
| A Stroll to the Mountain Telegraph | [34] |
| The Tourist’s Pic Nic | [37] |
| The Signal Telegraph | [37] |
| Prospect from the Telegraph | [38] |
| A Ramble to the Mountain Head | [40] |
| Roman Watch Tower and Wall | [41] |
| Capel Lochwyd | [42] |
| Ancient Coins Found | [43] |
| Reflections on Leaving the Mountain | [43] |
| The New Harbour | [45] |
| Chester and Holyhead Railway | [53] |
| Steam Packets | [55] |
| Hotels | [56] |
| Trips by Sea | [57] |
| Penrhos Park | [58] |
| Lady Stanley’s Hospitality to Shipwrecked Sailors | [58] |
| Capel Towyn—Interesting Paper by the Hon. W. O. Stanley | [59] |
| Cromlechi—Druidical Altars | [62] |
| Ancient Stones of Memorial | [67] |
| Boundary Stones | [69] |
PREFACE.
Since the opening of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, thousands of persons have availed themselves of the opportunity, thus afforded, of visiting this extreme western point of the Principality. And though the claims of business are weighty and urgent, still, many will secure a few days in some of the summer months, for the purpose of repairing, in some measure, the physical and mental waste of a year’s toil. Such persons, having arrived at the spot where they purpose making a short stay, are desirous to know how the brief season may be at once profitably spent. Hence, the numerous inquiries made by many of the visitors to Holyhead, as to whether there were any objects worthy of notice in the town and neighbourhood, led the writer to infer that a small Hand-book, containing the desired information, was a desideratum. He has, therefore, made the attempt to supply the deficiency, by communicating all necessary detail of such objects of interest as the Tourist may become acquainted with in the space of a short time, at a very reasonable outlay, and he trusts the following sketches will be found to afford some hints and observations, not altogether useless to those who may have the good fortune to visit this romantic locality.
In the compilation of the present Guide, the writer has consulted most of the best authors on North Wales, and has availed himself of that assistance, without which the work would not have appeared in its present dress. The writer makes no apology for the religious sentences, occasionally interwoven in the following pages, for he is fully persuaded that no excursionist can really enjoy a ramble amid the beauties of creation, unless he looks “through nature up to nature’s God.”
In conclusion, the compiler has only to add, that if the reader derives any information, pleasure, or profit, from the perusal of the work, he shall think the time occupied in writing it by no means uselessly employed.
T. J.
Holyhead, 1853.