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[[File:Ellin's Tower and South Stack lighthouse - geograph.org.uk - 1406866.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Ellin's Tower and the South Stack Lighthouse]]
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'''Ellin's Tower''' is a short, castellated tower located around two and a half miles west of [[Holyhead]] on [[Holy Island, Anglesey|Holy Island]], [[Anglesey]].  It overlooks the sea and [[South Stack]], and today belongs to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

The tower was built between 1820 and 1850 by the locally well known Stanley family from [[Penrhos, Anglesey|Penrhos]], and it was originally used as a summer house.<ref name="Hughes">Hughes, Margaret: ''Anglesey from the Sea'', page 46. Carreg Gwalch, 2001</ref>

Today the tower serves as an RSPB information centre, shop and café for the South Stack Cliffs RSPB reserve, in which reserve it stands.  Apatr from the facilities contained, Elin's Tower affords a good view of [[South Stack]] and its lighthouse<ref>[http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/s/southstackcliffs/facilities.aspx Ellin's Tower and South Stack: the RSPB]</ref> to one side and [[Holyhead Mountain]] to the other.

==Outside links==
*[http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/seenature/reserves/guide/s/southstackcliffs/facilities.aspx RSPB - South Stack facilities]
*[http://www.angleseyvisitor.com/attractions/item/354/RSPB_South_Stack_Cliffs.html Anglesey Visitor – South Stack]

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