page_title: Salt Island, Anglesey
section_title: Pier
hierarchical_section_title: Salt Island, Anglesey / Pier
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of Admirality Pier, Salt Island (Ynys Halen), Anglesey, Wales
context_page_description: Salt Island is joined to Holy Island, Anglesey, in North Wales. It is a natural provider of shelter for the town's Old Harbour from the Irish Sea and is part of the Port of Holyhead.
context_section_description: The main pier on the island, the Admiralty Pier, was opened in 1821. At around 980 feet (300 m) long it extends east into the sea and has been used to handle ferry traffic since it was opened. Due to its important historical links between Great Britain and Ireland, the pier has twice had royal visitors, once on 7 August 1821 when King George IV arrived from Ireland and once in 1898 when Queen Victoria set sail for her last voyage to Ireland.
  An inner arm, pairing the existing 5,100-foot (1,600 m) long breakwater (built between 1848–1876) was planned from Salt Island. The isolated broad gauge tramway railway from the Holyhead Mountain quarry used to build the former had a branch to Salt Island, via Newry Beach, to facilitate this.  Although started with an intention to be 2,100 feet long, the inner arm was never developed beyond a rubble spit at the northern tip of the island.  Stone blocks that supported this tramway are still to be found along the upper seafront of Newry Beach.  No trace remains of the, presumably, wooden viaduct across the Borth Sach inlet which provided access to the island.  During the 1990s the remains of rails were still to be found amongst the large boulders deposited as the foundations for the inner arm.
  In more recent times, starting in February 2001, the island was expanded into the sea by the process of land reclamation. In total 11 acres (4.5 ha) was gained at a cost of £10 million. An average of 7,000 tonnes of rock and mud was extracted per day during the process.
caption: Northern end of Salt Island and Admiralty Pier
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