Pentraeth is a town and also neighborhood on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid referral SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name indicates at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and also it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a tiny river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The town's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a battle when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with a military raised in Ireland in an attempt to declare a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his daddy Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also killed right here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to see the wreckage of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 as well as 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth train terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd League, the fourth rate of Welsh football. The centre of the town is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and also the Panton Arms public house as well as 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 now inhabited by a rug store as well as a bakery as well as party-ware hire shop.