Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a small village, neighborhood and message town on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postal code is LL71, and also it has a population of 1,360, of whom greater than 60% is Welsh speaking. The town is positioned near the centre of Anglesey near the huge supply of water storage tank, Llyn Alaw, and also is believed to have an ancient structure. Llannerch suggests "a woodland cleaning". Words medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and the name might be related to the production of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Railway goes through the town. Its terminal, opened in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, as well as its goods backyard is now a car park. There is currently a coffee shop as well as cafeteria housed in a modern expansion of the old structures. Just to the northeast of the village is the hill called Pen y Foel which is 123m above water level; in between 1951 and 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, as well as was one of a number similar set websites managed by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The site included an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with two radio receivers of type R1392D, transmitter as well as telephone line. This hut was safeguarded by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to supply some bomb blast security which still exists. The terminal was utilized to permit each industry to find RAF or allied aircraft and to assist pilots locate airfields in low cloud weather. Also on the hill was a rectangular block hut (now unroofed) additionally developed by the RAF; this was an easy two-room hut with a rainwater collection tank. The site had three RAF wireless employees (2 were usually on duty) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd as well as affixed to neighboring RAF Valley. The website closed in around 1956 as the technology was replaced by boosted systems. Capital Pen y Foel is additionally the basis for the name of the neighborhood Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which belongs to the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members as well as practices in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has actually supported neighborhood Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for numerous charities as well as has actually captivated target markets in concerts, wedding celebrations as well as other functions throughout North Wales.