Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code starts LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a beach, as well as it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Wharf Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The town's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a fight when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with a military increased in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the fatality of his daddy Owain Gwynedd. He was beat and killed right here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the village on his journey, as a journalist for The Times, to see the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 as well as 1950 it was served by Pentraeth railway station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd League, the fourth rate of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church as well as 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 food store into the 1990s, and is now inhabited by a carpeting shop along with a bakeshop as well as party-ware hire store.
