Pentraeth is a town as well as area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid reference SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code starts LL75. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name implies at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Jetty Bay). There is a tiny 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 a military increased in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his father Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also killed here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and also Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the village on his journey, as a journalist for The Times, to go to the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 as well as 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth railway station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd League, the 4th 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 public house in addition to 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, and also is now occupied by a carpet store along with a pastry shop and also party-ware hire shop.