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
Anglesey and Newborough. Almost the entire coastline of Anglesey is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to protect the aesthetic appeal and variety of the island's coastal landscape and habitats from inappropriate development. The coastal zone of Anglesey was designated as an AONB in 1966 and was confirmed as such in 1967. The AONB is predominantly a coastal designation, covering most of Anglesey's coastline but also encompasses Holyhead Mountain and Mynydd Bodafon. Substantial areas of other land protected by the AONB form the backdrop to the coast. The AONB is about 221 km (85 sq mi) and it