Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village and neighborhood on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name suggests at the end of (or head of) a beach, and also it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The village's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a fight when Hywel abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd landed with an army raised in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the fatality of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was beat as well as eliminated right here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to go to the wreckage of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 and also 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 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 hostelry in addition to 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 grocery store right into the 1990s, and also is currently inhabited by a carpeting shop as well as a bakeshop and party-ware hire store.
