Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a little town, neighborhood as well as 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 village is positioned near the centre of Anglesey near the large water supply reservoir, Llyn Alaw, and also is thought to have an ancient structure. Llannerch means "a forest clearing". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, as well as the name may be associated with the manufacturing of honey for mead. The disused Anglesey Central Railway goes through the town. Its terminal, opened up in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its items yard is now a parking lot. There is now a coffee shop and tea rooms housed in a modern expansion of the old buildings. Simply to the northeast of the village is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m above sea level; in between 1951 and also 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, and was one of a number comparable fixed sites handled by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The site had an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with two radio receivers of kind R1392D, transmitter as well as telephone line. This hut was protected by a close bordering octagonal brick wall to provide some bomb blast security which still exists. The terminal was made use of to allow each market to situate RAF or allied airplane as well as to help pilots find airfields in low cloud weather. Additionally on capital was a rectangle-shaped block hut (currently unroofed) also built by the RAF; this was a simple two-room hut with a rain collection tank. The website had 3 RAF cordless employees (2 were typically on duty) who were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also connected to close-by RAF Valley. The site enclosed around 1956 as the technology was changed by improved systems. Capital Pen y Foel is additionally 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 also rehearses in the town at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has actually sustained regional Eisteddfodau, competed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for various charities as well as has amused target markets together, weddings and also various other features throughout North Wales.
