Pentraeth is a village and area on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid referral SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code starts LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name indicates at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Wharf Bay). There is a small river, Afon Nodwydd which goes through it. The town's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the website of a fight when Hywel abdominal Owain Gwynedd landed with a military increased in Ireland in an attempt to declare a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd complying with the fatality of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated as well as killed right here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and also Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the village on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to see the wreckage of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 as well as 1950 it was served by Pentraeth railway terminal, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the Gwynedd League, the fourth tier 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 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 into the 1990s, and is now inhabited by a carpet shop in addition to a bakery as well as party-ware hire shop.