Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a tiny village, community and message community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postcode is LL71, and it has a population of 1,360, of whom greater than 60% is Welsh speaking. The town is situated near the centre of Anglesey close to the big water system storage tank, Llyn Alaw, and is believed to have an ancient foundation. Llannerch suggests "a woodland cleaning". Words medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and also the name may be connected to the manufacturing of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Railway goes through the town. Its terminal, opened in 1866, was enclosed 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, as well as its items lawn is now a parking area. There is now a coffee shop and 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 also 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, as well as was just one of a number similar fixed websites taken care of by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website contained an octagonal wood hut with a hand-steerable radio mast with 2 radio receivers of kind R1392D, transmitter and telephone line. This hut was shielded by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to give some bomb blast security which still exists. The terminal was used to permit each field to situate RAF or allied aircraft and also to aid pilots discover airfields in reduced cloud weather. Also on the hill was a rectangular block hut (currently unroofed) likewise constructed by the RAF; this was an easy two-room hut with a rain collection storage tank. The site had three RAF cordless personnel (two were generally at work) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also attached to close-by RAF Valley. The site closed in around 1956 as the technology was replaced by improved systems. The hill Pen y Foel is also the basis for the name of the neighborhood Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which is a member of the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 participants and also rehearses in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has actually supported regional Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for many charities and also has captivated audiences together, weddings and also other features throughout North Wales.
