Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a town and also neighborhood on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75. The area population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name implies at the end of (or head of) a beach, as well as it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Dock Bay). There is a tiny river, Afon Nodwydd which runs through it. The village's ancient name was Llanfair Betws Geraint. In 1170 it was the site of a battle when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with a military elevated in Ireland in an attempt to declare a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his daddy Owain Gwynedd. He was beat as well as eliminated below by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his journey, as a reporter for The Times, to visit the wreckage of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. In between 1908 and also 1950 it was offered by Pentraeth railway station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd League, the 4th tier of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and the Panton Arms pub 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, as well as is now inhabited by a carpeting store in addition to a bakery and also party-ware hire store.
