Rhosgoch

{{Short description|Village in Anglesey, Wales}}

{{about|the village in Anglesey|the village in Carmarthenshire named Rhos-goch in Welsh|Red Roses}}

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File:Entrance gate on the railway spur at the former Rhosgoch oil terminal - geograph.org.uk - 1312247.jpg

Rhosgoch ({{pronunciation|Rhosgoch.ogg|Welsh pronunciation|help=no}}; meaning: 'red moor') is a small village in the north of the island of Anglesey, Wales, about {{convert|3.5|mi|km}} to the south-west of Amlwch.{{cite map |title =Anglesey|map =114|year = 2016|scale =1:50,000 |series = Landranger|publisher =Ordnance Survey |isbn = 9780319262122 }} It is in the community of Rhosybol.

A short distance to the west of the village is the small lake Llyn Hafodol and a mile to the south is Anglesey's largest body of water the reservoir Llyn Alaw (Water Lily Lake).

The village once had a station on the Anglesey Central Railway.{{cite book|last1=Bridge|first1=Mike|title=Railway track diagrams; Book 4 - Midlands & North West|date=2013|publisher=Trackmaps|location=Bradford on Avon|isbn=978-0-9549866-7-4|page=37A|edition=3}} Although the tracks still exist, no train has run on them since 1993.{{cite magazine|last1=Scotchman|first1=Ian|title=Rail Route Changes|magazine=The Railway Magazine|date=June 1994|volume=140|issue=1118|page=20|publisher=IPC Media|location=London|issn=0033-8923}} Also connected to the railway, was a short south-west facing spur that led to an oil terminal. This was linked to a floating dock in the sea off of Amlwch, where super-tankers could dock in all tides and feed oil via Rhosgoch and a pipeline to Stanlow oil refinery. This operation lasted for 16 years between 1974 and 1990.{{cite web|title=Anglesey Marine Terminal|url=http://www.amlwchhistory.co.uk/shell.html|website=www.amlwchhistory.co.uk|access-date=29 July 2017}}

The first tornado of the record-breaking 1981 United Kingdom tornado outbreak, an F1/T2 tornado, touched down close to Rhosgoch at around 10:19 local time on 23 November 1981.{{Citation needed|reason=Be cool if it true|date=July 2018}}