Penrhyndeudraeth
Penrhyndeudraeth is a town and neighborhood in the Welsh area of Gwynedd. The community is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 nearly 3 miles (4.8 km) eastern of Porthmadog, and also had a population of 2,150 at the 2011 census, boosted from 2,031 in 2001. The community includes Minffordd as well as Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking area in Wales, with roughly 76% of the its citizens aged three years or older mentioning that they might speak Welsh. According to the most up to date Estyn evaluation report of the village's primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of students come from houses where Welsh is spoken. In an occurrence in June 2011, with brand-new English landlords of the Royal Oak bar in Penrhyndeudraeth, consumers left the club in anger as well as were threatened with an airgun after being informed to quit getting their drinks in Welsh. The pub consequently had a change of administration. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children and Youngster's Chaired Eisteddfod is held yearly at the Memorial Hall. The town is residence to the Snowdonia National Park Authority head office. There are lots of language traces of Old Welsh to be discovered in the name in the Penrhyndeudraeth location, such as "Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word "Brued" suggesting bridge). Remains of old huts can be found near Ty 'n y Berllan, which go back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth's Alun 'Sbardun' Huws composed a song, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (around "roads of long ago"), in tribute to the village. His widely known band Y Tebot Piws additionally recorded their farewell cd at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.
