Pentraeth
Pentraeth is a village and community on the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn), North Wales, at grid recommendation SH523786. The Royal Mail postal code begins LL75. The neighborhood population taken at the 2011 census was 1,178. Its Welsh name means at the end of (or head of) a coastline, and also it lies near Traeth Coch (Red Wharf 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 website of a fight when Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd landed with a military raised in Ireland in an attempt to assert a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd complying with the death of his dad Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and also eliminated here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd abdominal muscle Owain Gwynedd and also Rhodri. In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the town on his trip, as a reporter for The Times, to see the accident of the Royal Charter in Moelfre. Between 1908 and also 1950 it was served by Pentraeth train station, on the Red Wharf Bay branch line. The town has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., that play in the Gwynedd Organization, the fourth tier of Welsh football. The centre of the village is The Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and also the Panton Arms hostelry along with 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 supermarket right into the 1990s, and also is now inhabited by a carpet store as well as a bakeshop and party-ware hire shop.