Anglesey
Carmel Head
The remotest corner of Anglesey, with white navigation towers on the headland and the Skerries offshore in a fierce tidal race.
- Distance
- 5.0 mi / 8 km
- Time
- 2 hr 50
- Ascent
- 220 m
- Difficulty
- Demanding
- Shape
- There and back
Where it is
The circle shows the general area, not the exact start. Use the directions link below to get to the car park itself. Contours and paths shown are OpenTopoMap, drawn from OpenStreetMap data.
The route
The coast path runs north-east from Church Bay round the head. Rough and remote, with no facilities beyond the start.
Worth knowing
- The two white towers line up to warn ships off the Skerries reef.
- The tide race off the head is one of the strongest around Wales.
- No shelter and no signal along most of this stretch.
What you’ll see
The white towers, the Skerries and their lighthouse, seals, and the Irish Sea.
Background
The Skerries lighthouse was the last privately owned light in Britain, bought out by Trinity House in 1841 for a very large sum.