Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a small town, neighborhood and also article town on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postal code is LL71, as well as it has a population of 1,360, of whom more than 60% is Welsh speaking. The town is situated near the centre of Anglesey near the large water system tank, Llyn Alaw, and is believed to have an old structure. Llannerch indicates "a forest cleaning". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and the name may be associated with the manufacturing of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Train goes through the village. Its station, opened in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and also its items yard is currently a car park. There is now a coffee shop and also tea rooms housed in a modern-day expansion of the old structures. Simply to the northeast of the town is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m above water level; in between 1951 and 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, as well as was just one of a number similar fixed websites managed by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The site included an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio mast with two radio receivers of type R1392D, transmitter as well as telephone line. This hut was safeguarded by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to supply some bomb blast defense which still exists. The terminal was used to permit each industry to locate RAF or allied airplane and also to help pilots discover landing strips in reduced cloud weather. Also on capital was a rectangular block hut (currently unroofed) additionally developed by the RAF; this was a simple two-room hut with a rain collection container. The site had three RAF cordless workers (2 were typically at work) who were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also connected to nearby RAF Valley. The site enclosed around 1956 as the innovation was changed by improved systems. Capital Pen y Foel is additionally the basis for the name of the local Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which is a member of the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members as well as rehearses in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has actually sustained regional Eisteddfodau, competed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for numerous charities and also has entertained audiences together, weddings and other features throughout North Wales.
