Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid reference SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name suggests at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Jetty Bay). There is a tiny river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The town's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a battle when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with an army raised in Ireland in an effort to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his father Owain Gwynedd. He was beat and also eliminated below by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his journey, as a reporter for The Times, to visit the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In 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 fourth tier of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and also the Panton Arms public house along with a row of shops called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It proceeded as a supermarket into the 1990s, and is currently occupied by a carpeting store in addition to a pastry shop as well as party-ware hire shop.
