Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village as well as community on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid reference SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a beach, and it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a tiny river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The town's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a fight when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with an army increased in Ireland in an attempt to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and killed right here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the village on his trip, as a journalist for The Times, to visit the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 and 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth railway terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd League, the 4th tier 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 stores called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It continued as a grocery store into the 1990s, and is now occupied by a rug shop along with a pastry shop as well as party-ware hire shop.
