Salt island

[Rascal]

Does anyone know why salt island is called salt island, how did it get that name?

[Wils]

I believe it's from the big signpost just outside Salt Island, which says "Salt Island."

[Nooks]

Accordng to Cambria49's Book "Holyhead to Ireland", Salt Island took its name from the salt works constructed on it, presumably around the late 17th Century. Apparantly Lewis Morris's map of 1746 shows the salt works in ruins.

[Rascal]

Thank you Wils.

Nooks, please keep your nonsensical comments to yourself.


Local knowledge keeps on expanding, cheers Nooks.

[that guy]

Accordng to Cambria49's Book "Holyhead to Ireland", Salt Island took its name from the salt works constructed on it, presumably around the late 17th Century. Apparantly Lewis Morris's map of 1746 shows the salt works in ruins.

I have that map!

[Jean]

There's a Wiki on Salt Island - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Island,_Anglesey

repeating more or less what Nooks said earlier in the thread.

[Rascal]

Thank you

[that guy]

I'm actually a bit annoyed that I'm not allowed on Salt Island.  Holyhead's very own Area 51.

Hmm, low tide 1800 Saturday

[Rascal]

I got my thumb sowed up there as a kid after cutting it open on a broken bottle

[Nooks]

Did they give it a salt bath?

[Rascal]

Yeah, as they sang Islands in the stream

[Porty]

Does anyone know why salt island is called salt island, how did it get that name?

Hey it's my home.