Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a little village, area and blog post community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postcode is LL71, and it has a population of 1,360, of whom more than 60% is Welsh talking. The town is located near the centre of Anglesey near the huge water system storage tank, Llyn Alaw, and also is believed to have an ancient foundation. Llannerch suggests "a timberland cleaning". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and also the name may be related to the production of honey for mead. The obsolete Anglesey Central Railway runs through the village. Its terminal, opened up in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, as well as its items lawn is currently a car park. There is now a coffee shop and also tea rooms housed in a modern-day expansion of the old buildings. Just to the northeast of the village is capital called Pen y Foel which is 123m over water level; between 1951 as well as 1956 this was the site of a VHF Fixer station, part of the RAF Western Sector, and was just one of a number similar set sites taken care of by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The site had an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with 2 radio receivers of kind R1392D, transmitter and also telephone line. This hut was safeguarded by a close bordering octagonal brick wall to provide some bomb blast protection which still exists. The station was used to permit each industry to find RAF or allied airplane and to aid pilots discover landing fields in reduced cloud weather conditions. Also on capital was a rectangle-shaped brick hut (currently unroofed) likewise constructed by the RAF; this was a basic two-room hut with a rain collection storage tank. The website had three RAF wireless employees (2 were typically working) who were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and attached to close-by RAF Valley. The site enclosed around 1956 as the innovation was replaced by enhanced systems. The hill Pen y Foel is also the basis for the name of the local Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which is a member of the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 members as well as practices in the village at Capel Ifan. Over the past decade the Choir has actually supported local Eisteddfodau, contended in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for numerous charities and has entertained audiences jointly, weddings and various other features throughout North Wales.