Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code starts 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, and it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a tiny river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The town's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the website of a battle when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with an army increased in Ireland in an attempt to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the death of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also eliminated right here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his journey, as a journalist for The Times, to visit the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 as well as 1950 it was served 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 Organization, the fourth tier of Welsh football. The centre of the town is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and the Panton Arms public house in addition to 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 food store into the 1990s, and is now occupied by a rug store as well as a bakeshop and party-ware hire store.
