Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a tiny village, area and blog post community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postcode is LL71, and also it has a population of 1,360, of whom greater than 60% is Welsh speaking. The town is situated near the centre of Anglesey close to the big water supply reservoir, Llyn Alaw, and is believed to have an old foundation. Llannerch suggests "a timberland cleaning". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and the name may be associated with the production of honey for mead. The disused Anglesey Central Train goes through the town. Its station, opened in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, as well as its products yard is currently a parking lot. There is now a cafe as well as tea rooms housed in a contemporary expansion of the old structures. Just to the northeast of the village is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m over 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 fixed sites handled by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website included an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with two radio receivers of kind R1392D, transmitter and also telephone line. This hut was protected by a close bordering octagonal brick wall to supply some bomb blast security which still exists. The terminal was made use of to permit each industry to situate RAF or allied airplane and to help pilots discover landing strips in low cloud climate condition. Also on capital was a rectangular brick hut (currently unroofed) additionally built by the RAF; this was a straightforward two-room hut with a rain collection storage tank. The site had 3 RAF wireless employees (two were normally at work) who were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd as well as connected to nearby RAF Valley. The site enclosed around 1956 as the innovation was changed by boosted systems. The hill Pen y Foel is also the basis for the name of the neighborhood Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which is a member of the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members and rehearses in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has actually supported regional Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for many charities as well as has amused audiences in concerts, wedding celebrations as well as other functions throughout North Wales.
