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Penrhyndeudraeth
Penrhyndeudraeth is a small town and neighborhood in the Welsh region of Gwynedd. The town is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 nearly 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) eastern of Porthmadog, and also had a population of 2,150 at the 2011 census, raised from 2,031 in 2001. The neighborhood consists of Minffordd and Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking area in Wales, with approximately 76% of the its citizens aged 3 years or older specifying that they might talk Welsh. According to the current Estyn evaluation record of the village's primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of pupils originated from houses where Welsh is talked. In a case in June 2011, with new English property owners of the Royal Oak bar in Penrhyndeudraeth, clients left the bar in anger as well as were intimidated with an airgun after being informed to quit buying their drinks in Welsh. The club ultimately had an adjustment of monitoring. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children as well as Youth's Chaired Eisteddfod is held yearly at the Memorial Hall. The town is house to the Snowdonia National Park Authority headquarters. There are several language traces of Old Welsh to be found in the place names in the Penrhyndeudraeth area, such as "Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word "Brued" meaning bridge). Remains of old huts can be found near Ty 'n y Berllan, which date back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth's Alun 'Sbardun' Huws wrote a tune, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (approximately "streets of long ago"), in tribute to the town. His popular band Y Tebot Piws also recorded their farewell cd at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.