Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and also neighborhood on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid reference SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75. The neighborhood population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name implies at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and also it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Dock 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 battle when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with an army raised in Ireland in an attempt to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his father Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and killed here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the town on his journey, as a reporter for The Times, to see the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 and 1950 it was served by Pentraeth railway terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town 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 also the Panton Arms hostelry 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 into the 1990s, and also is now inhabited by a rug store as well as a bakery as well as party-ware hire store.
