Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village and also area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid reference SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code begins LL75. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a beach, as well as it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Wharf Bay). There is a little river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The town's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the website of a fight when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with an army elevated in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd complying with the death of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was beat and killed here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the town on his journey, as a journalist for The Times, to check out the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 and also 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth train terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd League, the fourth rate of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and the Panton Arms public house as well as a row of stores called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It continued as a supermarket right into the 1990s, as well as is currently inhabited by a rug store along with a pastry shop as well as party-ware hire store.
