Anglesey

**Isle o Anglesey**
**Ynys Môn**
	Geography
Aurie; - Total; - % Watter	Ranked 9t; 714 km² (276 sq mi); 0.7%
Admeen HQ	Llangefni
Lairgest toun	Holyhead
ISO 3166-2	GB-AGY
ONS code	00NA
	Demographics
Population:; - Total (2021); - Densitie;	Ranked ; ; Ranked ; / km² (251/sq mi)
Ethnicity	98.1% White
Welsh leid; - Ony skills	Ranked 2nt; 70.4%
	Politics
	Isle o Anglesey Coonty Cooncil; http://www.anglesey.gov.uk
Control	Commissioners
Member o Parliament	Albert Owen;
Assembly Members	Ieuan Wyn Jones; (Constituency); North Wales; (Regional);

Anglesey /ˈæŋɡəlsi/ (Welsh: Ynys Môn Inglis: Isle of Anglesey) [ˈənɨs ˈmoːn], is an island an, as Isle o Anglesey, a coonty aff the north west coast o Wales. Twa brigs, spannin the Menai Strait, connect it tae the mainland: the oreeginal Menai Suspension Bridge (carryin the A5), designed bi Thomas Telford in 1826; an the mair recently rebuilt Britannia Bridge (replacin the oreeginal designed bi Robert Stephenson), which carries the A55 an the North Wales Coast Railway Line. Historian an author John Davies argues that it wis durin the tumultuous 10t century that the Norse name for Môn, Anglesey, came intae existence; the name wis later adoptit intae Inglis efter Anglo-Norman occupeers arrivit tae conquer the island durin the Norman invasions o Gwynedd.^[1]^[2]

The name Anglesey wis later uised in the Inglis leid as a coonty name which includit Holy Island an ither nearbi sma islands. Aboot hauf o the inhabitants can speak, read an write Welsh as well as Inglis, an 70% hae a knowledge o Welsh.^[3] Ance the Welsh leid wis grantit equal status in govrenment wi the Welsh Leid Act o 1993, the representative constituency names for the island wur chyngit tae the Welsh name o the island, Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency) in the UK pairlament, an Ynys Môn (Assembly constituency) in the Naitional Assembly for Wales. Wi an aurie o 714 square kilometre (276 sq mi),^[4] Anglesey is the lairgest Welsh island, the saxt lairgest surroondin the island o Great Breetain, an the lairgest island in the Erse Sea aheid o the Isle o Man.^[5]

Etymology

Môn is the Welsh name o Anglesey, derivit frae the Breetish enisis mona, appearin first durin the Roman era as 'Mona': it is the Mona o Tacitus (Ann. xiv. 29, Agr. xiv. 18), Pliny the Elder (iv. 16) an Dio Cassius (62). It is cried Môn Mam Cymru ("Môn, Mither o Wales") bi Giraldus Cambrensis, for the claimit ability o the fertile land tae produce enough fuid for the whole o Wales. In reality, the claim was probably mair directit at an ability tae sustain Gwynedd. Auld Welsh names are Ynys Dywyll ("Dark Isle") an Ynys y Cedairn (cedyrn or kedyrn; "Isle o brave fowk"). Clas Merddin, an Y fêl Ynys (honey isle) are ither names. The Inglis name Anglesey is in fact derivit frae the Auld Norse, meanin 'Ongull's Island'. The alternative "isle (ey) o the Angles" is discreditit.

References

↑ Davies, John, A History of Wales, Tumultuous century, Meredudd ab Owain, Viking raids of, Anglesey name origin pg 98, 99;
↑ Anglesey from Ongle's ey, or Ongle's Island. Anglesey, Wales
↑ Office of National Statistics 2001 Census Table KS25
↑ Angleseynature.co.uk
↑ C.Michael Hogan. 2011. Irish Sea. eds P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC

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Coordinates: 53°17′N 4°20′W / 53.283°N 4.333°W / 53.283; -4.333

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[Tumultuous_Century-1] Davies, John, A History of Wales, Tumultuous century, Meredudd ab Owain, Viking raids of, Anglesey name origin pg 98, 99;

[2] Anglesey from Ongle's ey, or Ongle's Island. Anglesey, Wales

[3] Office of National Statistics 2001 Census Table KS25

[4] Angleseynature.co.uk

[5] C.Michael Hogan. 2011. Irish Sea. eds P.Saundry & C.Cleveland. encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC

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