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Benllech is a small town (population 2,340) on the island of Anglesey in North Wales
North Wales

File:North Wales .pngNorth Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England....
. The popularity of its beach makes Benllech – on the A5025, the main road around Anglesey – one of the most visited places on the island.

The name
Welsh placenames

The placenames of Wales derive in most cases from the Welsh language, but have in many cases also been influenced by English language. The toponymy in Wales reveals significant features of the country's history and geography, as well as showing the development of the Welsh language....
 Benllech is perhaps a mutated form of penllech, literally "head slab", i.e. "capstone". or possibly meaning 'on slate', shortened from the Welsh term 'ar ben llech'.

Although there are too many tourists, it remains a popular beach holiday destination on Anglesey.






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Benllech is a small town (population 2,340) on the island of Anglesey in North Wales
North Wales

File:North Wales .pngNorth Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England....
. The popularity of its beach makes Benllech – on the A5025, the main road around Anglesey – one of the most visited places on the island.

The name
Welsh placenames

The placenames of Wales derive in most cases from the Welsh language, but have in many cases also been influenced by English language. The toponymy in Wales reveals significant features of the country's history and geography, as well as showing the development of the Welsh language....
 Benllech is perhaps a mutated form of penllech, literally "head slab", i.e. "capstone". or possibly meaning 'on slate', shortened from the Welsh term 'ar ben llech'.

Although there are too many tourists, it remains a popular beach holiday destination on Anglesey. The beach is a good size without being bleakly huge, shelves at a decent but not alarming rate and has an abundance of clean yellow sand. The Anglesey Coastal Path
Anglesey Coastal Path

Anglesey Coastal Path cost ?1.4 million and runs virtually within the length of the entire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on Anglesey. It is a network of public Rights of way in England and Wales and some designated permissive paths....
 passes through. Every summer the beach plays host to the Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 group "The Beach Team", who run a programme of children's events and family evenings, with the main focus being evangelism
Evangelism

Evangelism is the practice of attempting to convert people to a religion. The term is used most often in reference to Christianity, but is also used to refer to other religions, including Judaism, Islam, and less frequently, Buddhism and Hinduism....
 work amongst the holidaymaking families.

There are several hotels, a campsite/caravan site (and many more in the environs) and plenty of bed and breakfast
Bed and breakfast

Bed and Breakfast, also known as B&B, is a term, originating in the United Kingdom, but now also used all over the world, for an establishment that offers accommodation and breakfast, but usually does not offer other meals....
s. There are no major chain store
Chain store

Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices. These characteristics also apply to chain restaurants and some service-oriented chain businesses....
s in the village, although there are plenty of other shops which are pretty varied. It has everything visitors and residents need and the community is relatively healthy with a primary school, plenty of community events, GP practice, library, post office etc. Between 1909 and 1950 there was a railway station close to the village which was the terminus of the Red Wharf Bay branch line
Red Wharf Bay branch line

|}The Red Wharf Bay branch line was a standard gauge railway line in Anglesey, Wales, a branch off the Anglesey Central Railway. It opened throughout in 1909, but it closed to passengers in September 1930....
.

Benllech is also known locally for being a popular place to retire to - its sprawling bungalow estates are populated to some extent by couples who retire here after many years of family holidays. This makes Benllech feel culturally less Welsh and more English than some of the nearby villages such as Brynteg, Llanbedrgoch and Marianglas, and Lancashire
Lancashire

Lancashire is a Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in the North West England of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea....
 and Mancunian
Mancunian

Mancunians are people from the Manchester or Greater Manchester area.Mancunian may refer to:*Manchester*List of people from Manchester...
 accents are nearly as frequently heard as Welsh in the village shops. Despite the influx of English people into the area, 63% of Benllech can speak Welsh fluently.

Notable residents

  • The poet Goronwy Owen
    Goronwy Owen (poet)

    Goronwy Owen was one of the eighteenth century's greatest Welsh language poets. He mastered the traditional bardic metres and, although forced by circumstances to be an exile, played an important role in the literary and antiquarian movement in Wales often described as the Welsh Eighteenth Century Renaissance....
     (1723-1769) was a native of the parish of Llanfair Mathafarn Eithaf, which includes most of modern Benllech. The village hall was named in his honour.


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