{"id":38822,"date":"2025-10-08T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bardsey-island-off-welsh-coast-looks-for-new-tenants\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:46:28","slug":"bardsey-island-off-welsh-coast-looks-for-new-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bardsey-island-off-welsh-coast-looks-for-new-tenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Bardsey Island off Welsh coast looks for new tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Despite its remoteness, the island is described as being “very much a living community”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A tiny island off Gwynedd’s Ll\u0177n Peninsula, with more sheep than humans, is looking for new nature-loving inhabitants to live and work there. <\/p>\n

Ynys Enlli, also known as Bardsey Island, is wind-whipped, sea-sprayed and most definitely off-grid, boasting – as it does – a current year-round population of just three people. <\/p>\n

In 2023, it also became the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in Europe<\/a>, meaning its unspoiled view of the night sky is protected for current and future generations.<\/p>\n

And now, for the first time in almost 20 years, the trust which owns and runs the island, is welcoming one adventurous family or couple to its craggy shoreline – and the “opportunity of a lifetime”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bardsey Island Trust is asking anyone who might be interested in moving there to come forward, with the successful applicant settling on the island in September 2026.<\/p>\n

Once comfortably installed, the newest residents will be in charge of managing its 200 sheep and 25 Welsh Black cattle, alongside current tenant famer Gareth Roberts, from Aberdaron.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Gareth and his family have been there since 2007, and he knows the island intimately – and the challenges and benefits of living on Enlli,” said the trust’s chief officer, Sian Stacey, adding Mr Roberts will mentor the new arrivals.<\/p>\n

Measuring just 440 acres (0.69 square miles), the island is a national nature reserve and a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).<\/p>\n

International Dark Sky Sanctuary certification saw the island join16 other sites worldwide, each of them recognised as the most remote and dark places on Earth. <\/p>\n

However, with a handful of seasonal residents living there temporarily, as wardens, for some of the year, Sian described it as being “very much a living community”.<\/p>\n

“I lived there for three years myself – it’s an amazing place to be,” she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hailed as one of the holiest places in Britain during the Middle Ages, Ynys Enlli has been dubbed the Island of 20,000 Saints. <\/p>\n

Legend also casts it as the final resting place of pilgrims from across the world seeking salvation. An excavation in the 1990s unearthed dozens of medieval graves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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