Llanerchymedd
Llannerch-y-medd, is a tiny town, area and article community on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The Royal Mail postcode is LL71, and also it has a population of 1,360, of whom greater than 60% is Welsh talking. The town is situated near the centre of Anglesey near the large water storage tank, Llyn Alaw, and also is thought to have an old foundation. Llannerch indicates "a timberland clearing up". The word medd in the name is Welsh for mead, which is made from honey, and the name might be associated with the manufacturing of honey for mead. The disused Anglesey Central Railway runs through the town. Its station, opened up in 1866, was closed in 1964 as part of the Beeching Axe, and also its items yard is currently a parking area. There is now a coffee shop and tea rooms housed in a contemporary expansion of the old buildings. Just to the northeast of the town 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 also was among a number similar set sites managed by RAF Longley Lane near Preston in Lancashire. The website had an octagonal wooden hut with a hand-steerable radio pole with 2 radio receivers of type R1392D, transmitter as well as telephone line. This hut was shielded by a close surrounding octagonal brick wall to supply some bomb blast defense which still exists. The station was made use of to enable each field to locate RAF or allied aircraft and also to assist pilots discover airfields in low cloud weather conditions. Also on capital was a rectangle-shaped brick hut (currently unroofed) additionally built by the RAF; this was a basic two-room hut with a rainwater collection container. The website had 3 RAF cordless employees (2 were generally working) who were billeted with a landlady in Llannerch-y-Medd and attached to close-by RAF Valley. The website enclosed around 1956 as the innovation was changed by improved systems. The hill Pen y Foel is likewise the basis for the name of the neighborhood Male Voice Choir Cor Meibion Y Foel which belongs to the National Association of Choirs. It has 43 participants as well as rehearses in the town at Capel Ifan. Over the past decade the Choir has sustained local Eisteddfodau, completed in the Anglesey Eisteddfod, raised money for various charities and also has actually amused target markets together, wedding events and also various other functions throughout North Wales.