Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town as well as neighborhood 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 suggests at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Jetty Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The town's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a fight when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with a military raised in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd adhering to the fatality of his daddy Owain Gwynedd. He was beat and killed right here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd and also Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the village on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to visit the wreckage of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 and also 1950 it was served by Pentraeth train station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd Organization, the fourth rate of Welsh football. The centre of the town is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and the Panton Arms public house along with 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 also is now inhabited by a carpet store along with a pastry shop and party-ware hire shop.
