Penrhyndeudraeth
Penrhyndeudraeth is a village and also neighborhood in the Welsh region of Gwynedd. The town is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 almost 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) eastern of Porthmadog, as well as had a population of 2,150 at the 2011 census, boosted from 2,031 in 2001. The community consists of Minffordd and Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking community in Wales, with approximately 76% of the its residents aged three years or older specifying that they might talk Welsh. According to the most recent Estyn assessment report of the village's primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of pupils originated from houses where Welsh is talked. In an occurrence in June 2011, with new English proprietors of the Royal Oak club in Penrhyndeudraeth, customers left the club in anger as well as were endangered with an airgun after being informed to stop purchasing their drinks in Welsh. The bar consequently had a modification of management. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children as well as Young People's Chaired Eisteddfod is held every year at the Memorial Hall. The village is residence to the Snowdonia National Park Authority head office. There are many language traces of Old Welsh to be discovered in the place names in the Penrhyndeudraeth location, such as "Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word "Brued" implying bridge). Remains of old huts can be located near Ty 'n y Berllan, which go back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth's Alun 'Sbardun' Huws created a track, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (roughly "streets of long ago"), in tribute to the village. His well-known band Y Tebot Piws additionally recorded their farewell cd at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.
