Since the opening of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, thousands of
persons have availed themselves of the opportunity, thus afforded, of
visiting this extreme western point of the Principality. And though the
claims of business are weighty and urgent, still, many will secure a few
days in some of the summer months, for the purpose of repairing, in some
measure, the physical and mental waste of a year’s toil. Such persons,
having arrived at the spot where they purpose making a short stay, are
desirous to know how the brief season may be at once profitably spent.
Hence, the numerous inquiries made by many of the visitors to Holyhead,
as to whether there were any objects worthy of notice in the town and
neighbourhood, led the writer to infer that a small Hand-book, containing
the desired information, was a _desideratum_. He has, therefore, made
the attempt to supply the deficiency, by communicating all necessary
detail of such objects of interest as the Tourist may become acquainted
with in the space of a short time, at a very reasonable outlay, and he
trusts the following sketches will be found to afford some hints and
observations, not altogether useless to those who may have the good
fortune to visit this romantic locality.
In the compilation of the present Guide, the writer has consulted most of
the best authors on North Wales, and has availed himself of that
assistance, without which the work would not have appeared in its present
dress. The writer makes no apology for the religious sentences,
occasionally interwoven in the following pages, for he is fully persuaded
that no excursionist can _really_ enjoy a ramble amid the beauties of
creation, unless he looks “through nature up to nature’s God.”
In conclusion, the compiler has only to add, that if the reader derives
any information, pleasure, or profit, from the perusal of the work, he
shall think the time occupied in writing it by no means uselessly
employed.