Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village as well as area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid referral SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode starts LL75. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and also it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Wharf Bay). There is a small 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 ab Owain Gwynedd landed with an army raised in Ireland in an attempt to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and eliminated here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the village on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to check out the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 and 1950 it was served by Pentraeth train terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd League, the fourth rate of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church as well as the Panton Arms pub along with a row of shops 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 currently occupied by a carpeting shop in addition to a pastry shop and also party-ware hire store.