Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid reference SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code begins LL75. The neighborhood population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name indicates at the end of (or head of) a beach, and it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Jetty Bay). There is a tiny 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 abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with a military raised in Ireland in an attempt to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was beat and also eliminated here by the pressures of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal Owain Gwynedd as well as Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens remained in the town on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to visit the wreck of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 as well as 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth train 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 rate of Welsh football. The centre of the village 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 proceeded as a food store right into the 1990s, as well as is currently occupied by a carpet shop as well as a bakeshop and party-ware hire shop.
