High resolution images and the history of the Water Mill named Felin Tysilio in Menai Bridge on Anglesey in North Wales

Menai Bridge Water Mill - Felin Tysilio Woolen Mill on the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) in North Wales.

Menai Bridge, Felin Tysilio Woolen Mill, front view on a snowy December morning.

Menai Bridge, Felin Tysilio Woolen Mill - and old cottage.

There is far more to this site than just the story of the woolen mill, in fact the complex of buildings here - comprising of a smithy, a cottage or two, and an inn, were in fact the original hamlet of Porth Aethwy - now also known as Menai Bridge.

Later, a woolen mill and a slate writing boards (for schoolchildren) factory were built on the site. It is from this place that one caught the ferry to cross back and forth ovre the Menai Straits. This was known as the 'Bishop's Crossing' as the Bishop of Bangor Cathedral would cross from his house on the Anglesey side of the Straits back to the mainland. The cottage on the right in the photograph immediately above was built in 1604, and was once an inn. It was from this inn that you purchased the ticket for the ferry ride.

Menai Bridge, Felin Tysilio Woolen Mill and possibly the Miller.

Menai Bridge, Cadnant Smithy - John Morris the Smithy and Owen Hughes a servant at Bryn Meurig in 1909

Menai Bridge, Cadnant, Ferry Crossing Story

O.S. Coordinates: SH559729.

Anglesey Mills