Penrhyndeudraeth
Penrhyndeudraeth is a town as well as area in the Welsh region of Gwynedd. The town is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 virtually 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Porthmadog, and also had a population of 2,150 at the 2011 census, boosted from 2,031 in 2001. The neighborhood consists of Minffordd and also Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking community in Wales, with approximately 76% of the its citizens aged three years or older stating that they could talk Welsh. According to the current Estyn assessment report of the village's primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of pupils originated from houses where Welsh is talked. In an event in June 2011, with new English proprietors of the Royal Oak club in Penrhyndeudraeth, clients left the pub in anger as well as were intimidated with an airgun after being informed to quit getting their drinks in Welsh. The pub ultimately had an adjustment of monitoring. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children and Young People's Chaired Eisteddfod is held annually at the Memorial Hall. The village is house to the Snowdonia National Park Authority headquarters. There are numerous language traces of Old Welsh to be discovered in the name in the Penrhyndeudraeth area, such as "Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word "Brued" meaning bridge). Remains of old huts can be found near Ty 'n y Berllan, which date back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth's Alun 'Sbardun' Huws wrote a tune, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (about "streets of long ago"), in tribute to the town. His widely known band Y Tebot Piws additionally recorded their goodbye album at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.
