Pwllheli
Pwllheli is a neighborhood and the major market town of the Llyn Peninsula (Welsh: Penrhyn Llyn) in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011 of whom a big percentage, 81%, are Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the location where Plaid Cymru was founded. It is the native home of the Welsh poet Sir Albert Evans-Jones (bardic name Cynan). Pwllheli has a variety of shops as well as other services. As a local railhead with a market every Wednesday, the town is a gathering point for the population of the whole peninsula. For many years a vacation camp run by Butlins ran a couple of miles from Pwllheli at Pen-y-chain. Throughout the Second World War it came to be a marine camp, HMS Glendower, as well as it ran a healthcare facility for damaged servicemen at Brynberyl on the Pwllheli to Caernarfon roadway two miles out of community. After the war, Butlins re-established the holiday camp. The camp, now renamed Hafan y Môr ("Haven of the Sea"), has actually been redeveloped as well as is currently run by the Haven group.
