Penrhyndeudraeth
Penrhyndeudraeth is a small town and also neighborhood in the Welsh area of Gwynedd. The community is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 virtually 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Porthmadog, and also had a population of 2,150 at the 2011 census, boosted from 2,031 in 2001. The neighborhood consists of Minffordd and Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking neighborhood in Wales, with about 76% of the its locals aged three years or older mentioning that they might speak Welsh. According to the most recent Estyn examination report of the village's primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of pupils originated from houses where Welsh is spoken. In an event in June 2011, with new English property owners of the Royal Oak pub in Penrhyndeudraeth, clients left the pub in anger and were endangered with an airgun after being informed to stop buying their drinks in Welsh. The club ultimately had a change of administration. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children and also Youngster's Chaired Eisteddfod is held annually at the Memorial Hall. The village is home to the Snowdonia National Park Authority head office. There are lots of language traces of Old Welsh to be discovered in the place names in the Penrhyndeudraeth area, such as "Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word "Brued" indicating bridge). Remains of old huts can be discovered near Ty 'n y Berllan, which date back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth's Alun 'Sbardun' Huws wrote a tune, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (around "roads of long ago"), in tribute to the town. His popular band Y Tebot Piws likewise recorded their goodbye cd at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.
