Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a tiny town, community and also message town on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postcode is LL71, as well as it has a population of 1,360, of whom more than 60% is Welsh talking. The town is positioned near the centre of Anglesey near to the big water tank, Llyn Alaw, and is believed to have an ancient foundation. Llannerch indicates "a timberland clearing". Words medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and the name may be related to the production of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Railway runs through the town. Its terminal, opened in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its items lawn is currently a parking lot. There is now a cafe and also cafeteria housed in a contemporary extension of the old buildings. Simply to the northeast of the town is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m above water level; between 1951 and also 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, as well as was among a number comparable set sites managed by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website consisted of an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with 2 radio receivers of kind R1392D, transmitter as well as telephone line. This hut was secured by a close bordering octagonal brick wall to give some bomb blast defense which still exists. The terminal was used to enable each market to find RAF or allied aircraft as well as to aid pilots discover landing fields in reduced cloud weather conditions. Likewise on the hill was a rectangle-shaped brick hut (currently unroofed) additionally developed by the RAF; this was an easy two-room hut with a rain collection tank. The site had 3 RAF cordless employees (two were generally at work) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd as well as connected to nearby RAF Valley. The website closed in around 1956 as the innovation was replaced by improved systems. Capital Pen y Foel is also the basis for the name of the local Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which is a member of the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 participants and rehearses in the town at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has supported regional Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for numerous charities and also has actually entertained target markets in concerts, weddings and other features throughout North Wales.
