Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a small village, area as well as article community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postcode is LL71, as well as it has a population of 1,360, of whom more than 60% is Welsh talking. The town is situated near the centre of Anglesey close to the huge water system reservoir, Llyn Alaw, as well as is believed to have an old structure. Llannerch suggests "a forest clearing up". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and also the name may be related to the manufacturing of honey for mead. The disused Anglesey Central Railway goes through the town. Its station, opened in 1866, was enclosed 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its goods yard is currently a car park. There is now a cafe and tea rooms housed in a modern-day expansion of the old buildings. Simply to the northeast of the village is the hill called Pen y Foel which is 123m over water level; in between 1951 and also 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, as well as was just one of a number comparable set websites managed by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The site contained an octagonal wood hut with a hand-steerable radio mast with two radio receivers of kind R1392D, transmitter and also telephone line. This hut was shielded by a close bordering octagonal brick wall to supply some bomb blast defense which still exists. The terminal was used to permit each sector to situate RAF or allied aircraft and also to assist pilots locate airfields in low cloud weather. Additionally on the hill was a rectangle-shaped block hut (now unroofed) likewise constructed by the RAF; this was a basic two-room hut with a rain collection container. The site had three RAF wireless personnel (two were normally on duty) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and also connected to nearby RAF Valley. The website closed in around 1956 as the technology was replaced by boosted systems. The hill Pen y Foel is likewise 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 participants and also rehearses in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past years the Choir has supported regional Eisteddfodau, contended in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for countless charities as well as has actually delighted target markets together, weddings as well as other features throughout North Wales.
