Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and neighborhood on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75. The neighborhood population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name indicates at the end of (or head of) a beach, as well as it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a little river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The village's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the website of a battle when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with a military elevated in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his father Owain Gwynedd. He was beat and eliminated right here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the village on his journey, as a reporter for The Times, to go to the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 and also 1950 it was served by Pentraeth train station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd Organization, the 4th tier of Welsh football. The centre of the town is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church as well as the Panton Arms hostelry along with a row of shops called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It continued as a supermarket right into the 1990s, and is now occupied by a carpet shop along with a bakery and also party-ware hire shop.