Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a small town, area and article town on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postal code is LL71, and also it has a population of 1,360, of whom greater than 60% is Welsh speaking. The town is situated near the centre of Anglesey near the huge supply of water reservoir, Llyn Alaw, and also is thought to have an ancient foundation. Llannerch suggests "a forest clearing up". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, as well as the name may be associated with the manufacturing of honey for mead. The disused Anglesey Central Train goes through the town. Its station, opened up in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its goods backyard is currently a parking area. There is now a coffee shop and also cafeteria housed in a contemporary extension of the old buildings. Just to the northeast of the village is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m over water level; in between 1951 and 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, and was just one of a number comparable set sites taken care of by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website consisted of an octagonal wood hut with a hand-steerable radio mast with 2 radio receivers of kind R1392D, transmitter and also telephone line. This hut was secured by a close bordering octagonal brick wall to provide some bomb blast protection which still exists. The terminal was utilized to allow each industry to find RAF or allied aircraft and also to help pilots discover landing fields in reduced cloud weather. Also on capital was a rectangular brick hut (currently unroofed) additionally constructed by the RAF; this was a simple two-room hut with a rainwater collection storage tank. The website had three RAF wireless employees (two were usually at work) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also affixed to neighboring RAF Valley. The site closed in around 1956 as the innovation was changed by improved systems. Capital Pen y Foel is likewise the basis for the name of the regional Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which belongs to the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members and practices in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has supported local Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for many charities and has actually amused target markets jointly, weddings and also other features throughout North Wales.
