Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village as well as area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid referral SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode 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 beach, and also it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a tiny river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The village's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a battle when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with a military raised in Ireland in an attempt to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd complying with the death of his father Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also eliminated here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his journey, as a reporter for The Times, to go to the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 and 1950 it was served by Pentraeth train station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd Organization, the 4th rate of Welsh football. The centre of the town is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church as well as the Panton Arms public house along with a row of shops called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It proceeded as a food store right into the 1990s, and also is currently inhabited by a carpet store as well as a pastry shop as well as party-ware hire shop.