Llannerch-y-medd, is a little village, community and blog post town on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postal code is LL71, as well as it has a population of 1,360, of whom more than 60% is Welsh speaking. The village is positioned near the centre of Anglesey near to the huge water supply tank, Llyn Alaw, and also is believed to have an old structure. Llannerch indicates "a woodland clearing up". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, as well as the name may be associated with the production of honey for mead. The disused Anglesey Central Railway goes through the village. Its terminal, opened up in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and also its goods yard is currently a parking area. There is currently a coffee shop as well as tea rooms housed in a modern extension of the old buildings. Simply to the northeast of the town is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m above sea level; between 1951 and also 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, as well as was among a number comparable set websites managed by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website had an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with two radio receivers of type R1392D, transmitter and telephone line. This hut was shielded by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to offer some bomb blast defense which still exists. The station was used to permit each sector to locate RAF or allied aircraft and to aid pilots find landing strips in low cloud weather. Additionally on capital was a rectangle-shaped block hut (currently unroofed) likewise developed by the RAF; this was an easy two-room hut with a rainwater collection tank. The website had three RAF cordless workers (2 were normally on duty) who were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also affixed to nearby RAF Valley. The site enclosed around 1956 as the technology was replaced by enhanced systems. Capital Pen y Foel is likewise 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 practices in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past decade the Choir has sustained neighborhood Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for many charities and has delighted audiences together, weddings as well as other features throughout North Wales.
