Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a small village, neighborhood and also blog post town on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postcode is LL71, as well as it has a population of 1,360, of whom more than 60% is Welsh speaking. The village is situated near the centre of Anglesey close to the big water system reservoir, Llyn Alaw, and is thought to have an ancient structure. Llannerch indicates "a timberland clearing up". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and the name might be connected to the manufacturing of honey for mead. The disused Anglesey Central Railway runs through the village. Its station, opened in 1866, was enclosed 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, as well as its goods yard is now a car park. There is currently a coffee shop and also tea rooms housed in a modern expansion of the old buildings. Simply to the northeast of the town is the hill called Pen y Foel which is 123m above water level; in between 1951 as well as 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, and was among a number similar set websites handled 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 as well as telephone line. This hut was protected by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to provide some bomb blast security which still exists. The station was made use of to permit each market to find RAF or allied airplane and also to aid pilots locate landing strips in low cloud climate condition. Also on capital was a rectangular brick hut (currently unroofed) also constructed by the RAF; this was an easy two-room hut with a rain collection storage tank. The site had three RAF cordless workers (2 were typically at work) who were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and attached to nearby RAF Valley. The website closed in around 1956 as the technology was replaced by enhanced systems. Capital Pen y Foel is additionally the basis for the name of the local Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which belongs to the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members and also practices in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has sustained local Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for numerous charities as well as has actually captivated audiences jointly, weddings as well as other functions throughout North Wales.
