Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode starts LL75. The neighborhood population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Jetty 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 site of a battle when Hywel abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd landed with an army elevated in Ireland in an attempt to declare a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and 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 trip, as a reporter for The Times, to visit the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 and also 1950 it was served by Pentraeth railway terminal, 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 the Panton Arms hostelry in addition to 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 food store into the 1990s, as well as is currently occupied by a carpet store in addition to a pastry shop and party-ware hire store.
