Holyhead

Holyhead Welsh: Caergybi
St Cybi's Church, Church in Wales
Holyhead
Holyhead shawn within Anglesey
Population	11,431 2011 Census
OS grid reference	SH2482
Commonty	Holyhead
Principal aurie	Anglesey
Ceremonial coonty	Gwynedd
Kintra	Wales
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	HOLYHEAD
Postcode destrict	LL65
Diallin code	01407
Polis	North Wales
Fire	North Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
EU Pairlament	Wales
UK Pairlament	Ynys Môn
Welsh Assembly	Ynys Môn

Holyhead (// ; Welsh: Caergybi Welsh pronunciation: [kɑːɨrˈɡəbi], "Cybi's fort") is a toun in Wales an a major Irish Sea port serving Ireland. It is an aw a community an the lairgest toun in the Isle o Anglesey coonty, wi a population o 13,659 at the 2011 census. Holyhead is on Holy Island, which is separated frae Anglesey bi a very nairae channel an wis oreeginally connected tae Anglesey via the Four Mile Brig an nou bi the Stanley Embankment.

In the mid-19t century, Lord Stanley, a local philanthropist, funded the building o a lairger causeway,^{[citation needit]} kent locally as "The Cobb", it nou cairies the A5 an the railwey line. The A55 dual carriageway runs parallel tae the Cobb on a modren causeway.