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The Menai Strait (in Welsh Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 14 miles (23 km) long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales. Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...
[The Isle of] Anglesey or Anglesea ( Welsh: [Ynys] Môn, pronounced as Uh-niss Mawn, in IPA), is an island and county at the Western extremity of North Wales. ...
National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English(100%), Welsh(20. ...
The strait is bridged in two places - the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind, opened in January 1826, and adjacent to this is Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Tubular Bridge. Originally this carried rail traffic in two wrought-iron rectangular box spans, but after a disastrous fire in 1970, which left only the limestone pillars remaining, it was rebuilt as a steel box girder bridge. United Kingdom. ...
Thomas Telford (August 9, 1757 - September 2, 1834) was born in Westerkirk, Scotland. ...
The Menai Suspension Bridge from a viewpoint on the A4080 near the Britannia Bridge. ...
1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
For the lighthouse engineer see Robert Stevenson Statue of Robert Stephenson at Euston Station, London Robert Stephenson FRS (October 16, 1803 - October 12, 1859) was an English civil engineer. ...
1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Britannia Bridge is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, originally made of wrought iron rectangular box section spans, and now a two-tier steel box girder and arch bridge. ...
1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ...
A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle. ...
In places the strait is nearly two miles across but it narrows to little more than 200 metres where it passes underneath the two bridges. The differential tides at the two ends of the strait cause very strong currents to flow in both directions through the strait at different times, creating dangerous conditions. One of the most dangerous areas of the strait is known as the Swellies (or Swillies) between the two bridges. Here rocks near the surface cause over-falls and local whirlpools, which can be of considerable danger in themselves and cause small boats to founder on the rocks. This was the site of the loss of the school ship HMS Conway in 1953. Entering the strait at the Caernarfon end is also hazardous because of the frequently shifting sand banks that make up Caernarfon bar. Entering the strait at the south-western end, shipping has to pass Fort Belan, an 18th-century defensive fort built in the times of the American War of Independence. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 3080 KB)Menai Strait, from Llanfair Chuch, Nelson memorial and Britannia Bridge. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 3080 KB)Menai Strait, from Llanfair Chuch, Nelson memorial and Britannia Bridge. ...
Britannia Bridge is a bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, originally made of wrought iron rectangular box section spans, and now a two-tier steel box girder and arch bridge. ...
Lord Nelson Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral who won fame as a leading naval commander. ...
The tide is the regular rising and falling of the oceans surface caused by changes in gravitational forces external to the Earth. ...
WHIRLPOOL is a cryptographic hash function designed by Vincent Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto. ...
A school ship is a ship used for the training of students as sailors. ...
HMS Conway was a naval training school or school ship, founded in 1859 and housed for most of its life aboard a 19th-century wooden battleship. ...
1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Caernarfon, 2002 Caernarfon (the original Welsh spelling is now normally used in preference over the Anglicised form, Caernarvon or Carnarvon) is a Royal Town in Gwynedd in north-west Wales. ...
Fort Belan is a Grade I Listed building at the south western end of the Menai Strait opposite Abermenai point. ...
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. ...
The tidal effects observed along the banks of the strait can also be confusing. A rising tide approaches from the south-west and cause the water in the strait to flow north-eastwards as the level rises. The tide also flows around Anglesey until, after a few hours, it starts to flow into the Strait in a south-easterley direction from Beaumaris. By the time this happens the tidal flow from the Caernarfon end is weakening and the tide continues to rise but the direction of tidal flow is reversed. A similar sequence is seen in reverse on a falling tide. This means that slack water between the bridges tends to occur approximately one hour before high tide or low tide. There are many places named Beaumaris: Beaumaris, Anglesey in Wales, for which the other places are named Beaumaris, suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Australia Beaumaris, Tasmania, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
At slack water low tide, it is possible to cross the strait at Lafan Sands (Traeth Lafan), northeast of Bangor, but this is not advisable without good local knowledge. This article is about the city of Bangor in Wales. ...
Because the strait has such unusual tidal conditions coupled with very low wave heights because of its sheltered position, it presents a unique and diverse benthic ecology. The existence of this unique ecology was a major factor in the establishment of the internationally renowned School of Ocean Sciences at Menai Bridge, part of the University of Bangor. Menai Bridge (Welsh: Porthaethwy) is a town on Anglesey, Wales. ...
The University of Wales, Bangor (UWB) is a constituent institution of the University of Wales based in the small city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales, United Kingdom. ...
 Glyn Garth flats on the banks of the Menai Strait opposite Upper Bangor Much of the land on Anglesey at the eastern end of the strait is designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB). Despite this designation there have a number of decisions by planning authorities that do not reflect this designation. The construction of the flats at Glyn Garth is perhaps the best-known exampe of the creation of a blot on this landscape. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1060x1388, 440 KB)Glyn Garth Flats Menai Strait Author: Andrew Dixon. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1060x1388, 440 KB)Glyn Garth Flats Menai Strait Author: Andrew Dixon. ...
This article is about the city of Bangor in Wales. ...
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is a United Kingdom. ...
Places bordering the strait include:
Just north of the rail bridge on Anglesey is the famously named Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Beaumaris is a town in east Anglesey, Wales. ...
This article is about the city of Bangor in Wales. ...
Caernarfon, 2002 Caernarfon (the original Welsh spelling is now normally used in preference over the Anglicised form, Caernarvon or Carnarvon) is a Royal Town in Gwynedd in north-west Wales. ...
Menai Bridge (Welsh: Porthaethwy) is a town on Anglesey, Wales. ...
Y Felinheli is a small town in Gwynedd , north Wales, lying between Bangor and Caernarfon alongside the Menai Strait. ...
Y Felinheli is a small town in Gwynedd , north Wales, lying between Bangor and Caernarfon alongside the Menai Strait. ...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (), a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales is the longest official placename in the United Kingdom and the third-longest in the world. ...
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