Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode starts LL75. The neighborhood population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Wharf Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The village's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the website of a fight when Hywel abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd landed with a military increased in Ireland in an attempt to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the fatality of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also killed right here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and also Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the village on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to visit the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 as well as 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth train terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd Organization, the 4th tier of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church as well as the Panton Arms hostelry along with a row of shops called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It continued as a grocery store right into the 1990s, and also is now occupied by a carpeting store as well as a bakery as well as party-ware hire shop.
