Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and also area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid reference SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode starts LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name suggests at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and also it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The village's old name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the website of a fight when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with a military elevated in Ireland in an effort to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his father Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also eliminated below by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the village on his trip, as a journalist for The Times, to see the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 as well as 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth railway station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd Organization, the fourth tier of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and also the Panton Arms pub in addition to a row of shops 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 inhabited by a carpeting store in addition to a bakery and party-ware hire store.