Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a tiny village, neighborhood as well as post town 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 located near the centre of Anglesey close to the large water system tank, Llyn Alaw, as well as is thought to have an ancient foundation. Llannerch indicates "a woodland clearing up". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and the name may be related to the production of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Railway runs through the town. Its terminal, opened up in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and its goods yard is currently a parking area. There is now a cafe and also cafeteria housed in a modern expansion of the old buildings. Simply to the northeast of the town is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m over water level; in between 1951 as well as 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 fixed sites handled by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website had an octagonal wood hut with a hand-steerable radio mast with two radio receivers of type R1392D, transmitter as well as telephone line. This hut was secured by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to offer some bomb blast defense which still exists. The station was made use of to permit each field to locate RAF or allied airplane and also to aid pilots locate landing fields in low cloud weather conditions. Likewise on capital was a rectangle-shaped block hut (currently unroofed) likewise built by the RAF; this was a simple two-room hut with a rain collection container. The site had three RAF cordless workers (two were typically on duty) that were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and connected to close-by RAF Valley. The website closed in around 1956 as the technology was replaced by improved systems. The hill Pen y Foel is additionally the basis for the name of the regional Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which is a member of the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members and practices in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past decade the Choir has sustained neighborhood Eisteddfodau, competed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for numerous charities and also has captivated audiences jointly, weddings as well as various other features throughout North Wales.