Llannerch-y-medd, is a tiny village, neighborhood as well as post community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postal code is LL71, and it has a population of 1,360, of whom greater than 60% is Welsh speaking. The village is located near the centre of Anglesey near to the huge water system storage tank, Llyn Alaw, and is believed to have an ancient structure. Llannerch indicates "a forest clearing up". Words medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and also the name might be related to the production of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Train goes through the village. Its terminal, opened up in 1866, was enclosed 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its items yard is currently a car park. There is now a coffee shop and also cafeteria housed in a modern expansion of the old buildings. Simply to the northeast of the town is the hill 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 also was among a number comparable fixed sites handled by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website had an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with 2 radio receivers of type R1392D, transmitter and telephone line. This hut was protected by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to provide some bomb blast security which still exists. The terminal was used to enable each sector to find RAF or allied aircraft and to aid pilots locate landing strips in reduced cloud weather. Additionally on capital was a rectangular block hut (currently unroofed) also built by the RAF; this was a simple two-room hut with a rain collection container. The website had three RAF cordless workers (2 were typically working) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also affixed to neighboring RAF Valley. The website closed in around 1956 as the innovation was replaced by improved systems. Capital Pen y Foel is additionally the basis for the name of the local Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which belongs to the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members and rehearses in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has actually supported local Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for many charities as well as has amused audiences in concerts, wedding events and also other features throughout North Wales.
