Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village and also area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid referral SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code starts LL75. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name suggests at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and also it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The town's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a battle when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with an army raised in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his daddy Owain Gwynedd. He was beat and also eliminated right here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the town on his journey, as a journalist for The Times, to check out the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 as well as 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth train station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd Organization, the fourth rate of Welsh football. The centre of the town is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and also the Panton Arms pub as well as a row of stores called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It proceeded as a supermarket into the 1990s, as well as is now inhabited by a carpet shop in addition to a bakeshop and party-ware hire store.