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My Britain: Anglesey

“To be born in Wales, with music in your blood and poetry in your soul is a privilege indeed”
- Poet, Brian Harris

he largest of the Welsh islands, Anglesey sits just off the country's north-west coast. Such is its size, that it's only five square kilometres smaller than Singapore. Anglesey is the most populated of the British Isles after the Isle of Man, with some 70,000 residents, most of whom are native Welsh speakers. In literature, the island has something of a mythic reputation, and has been known as the Dark Isle, the Isle of the Brave, Honey Isle and Mother

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