Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a small town, community as well as blog post community 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 greater than 60% is Welsh talking. The village is positioned near the centre of Anglesey close to the large supply of water storage tank, Llyn Alaw, as well as is thought to have an ancient structure. Llannerch implies "a forest cleaning". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and also the name might be connected to the production of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Train runs through the town. Its terminal, opened in 1866, was enclosed 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its products backyard is currently a parking area. There is now a coffee shop as well as cafeteria housed in a modern expansion of the old structures. Simply to the northeast of the town is the hill called Pen y Foel which is 123m over water level; in between 1951 as well as 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, and also was just one of a number comparable fixed sites managed by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The site had an octagonal wood hut with a hand-steerable radio mast with 2 radio receivers of type R1392D, transmitter and also telephone line. This hut was protected by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to provide some bomb blast protection which still exists. The station was used to enable each field to locate RAF or allied aircraft as well as to help pilots find landing strips in low cloud climate condition. Also on capital was a rectangle-shaped brick hut (now unroofed) additionally built by the RAF; this was a simple two-room hut with a rainwater collection tank. The site had 3 RAF wireless employees (2 were typically at work) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also connected to close-by RAF Valley. The website enclosed around 1956 as the modern technology was replaced by enhanced systems. Capital Pen y Foel is likewise the basis for the name of the regional Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which belongs to the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 participants and also practices in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has supported neighborhood Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for many charities and also has actually delighted target markets together, weddings as well as other functions throughout North Wales.
