Pentraeth is a village and community on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid referral SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code starts LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name implies at the end of (or head of) a beach, as well as it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Dock 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 site of a battle when Hywel abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd landed with a military raised in Ireland in an effort to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also killed below by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his trip, as a journalist for The Times, to go to the wreckage of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 and also 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth railway terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd Organization, the fourth tier of Welsh football. The centre of the town is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and the Panton Arms public house in addition to a row of stores called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It continued as a grocery store into the 1990s, as well as is currently inhabited by a carpeting shop as well as a bakery as well as party-ware hire store.