Anglesey Sqn Search and Rescue Helicopters, both units providing employment for about 500 civilians. RAF Valley is now the headquarters of 22 Sqn Search and Rescue. There is a wide range of smaller industries, mostly located in industrial and business parks, especially at Llangefni and Gaerwen. These include an abattoir and fine chemical manufacturing, as well as factories for timber production, aluminium smelting, fish farming and food processing. The island is also on one of the major routes from Britain to Ireland, via ferries from Holyhead, off the west of Anglesey on Holy Island, serving Dún Laoghaire and Dublin Port. Much
The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey The Skerries (Welsh: "Ynysoedd y Moelrhoniaid") () are a group of sparsely vegetated rocky islets (skerries), with a total area of about lying offshore from Carmel Head at the northwest corner of Anglesey, Wales. The islands are important as a breeding site for seabirds, and they attract divers, who come to visit the numerous shipwrecks. The Skerries Lighthouse sits atop the highest point in the islands. The islands can be visited by charter boat from Holyhead. The individual islets are accessible from one another at low tide and by small bridges. The name "Skerry" is