Benllech

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Benllech is a village on Ynys Môn (Isle of Anglesey), North Wales famous for its Beach. Access is easy as the village is on the A5025, the main road around the island.

It is popular as a 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 passes through.

There are several hotels, a campsite/caravan site (and many more in the environs) and plenty of bed and breakfasts. There are no major chainstores in the village (although there are plenty of other shops which are pretty varied) and architecturally Benllech is never going to win any prizes. However 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.

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 Lancastrian and Mancunian accents are nearly as frequently heard as Welsh in the village shops.

Benllech has become popular with young people looking for somewhere to frequent in the evenings, despite the fact that the night life is limited (three pubs and a couple of chip shops). The beach links up except at high tide with the next bay along - massive (and muddy) Traeth Coch which has an altogether wilder, more isolated feel since the village is much smaller and less closely connected to the beach. Traeth Coch - or Red Wharf Bay - does boast a very popular cafe which has a high reputation for the quality of its food (and is pretty expensive).