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PUFFIN ISLAND, or Priestholme, an extra-parochial island in the N E of Anglesey; at the W side of themonth of the Menai strait, 4½ miles N E of Beaumaris. It is about a mile long; is known to the Welsh as Ynys Seiriol; belonged to the monks of Penmon; and has a tower 40 feet high, built by the monks, and a quondamtelegraph, 160 feet high, in the line of communicationfrom Holyhead to Liverpool.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an extra-parochial island" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Anglesey Ancient County |
| Place names: | PRIESTHOLME | PUFFIN ISLAND | PUFFIN ISLAND OR PRIESTHOLME | YNYS SEIRIOL |
| Place: | Priestholm |
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