Pentraeth

Pentraeth

Pentraeth is a village on the island of Anglesey ("Ynys Môn"), north Wales, at gbmapping|SH523786. The Royal Mail postcode begins LL75.

Its Welsh name means "at the end of (or head of) a beach", and it is located near Traeth Coch (Red Wharf Bay). There is a small 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 an army raised in Ireland in an attempt to claim a share of the kingdom of Gwynedd following the death of his father Owain Gwynedd. He was defeated and killed here by the forces of his half-brothers Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and Rhodri.

In 1859, Charles Dickens stayed in the village on his trip, as a journalist for The Times to visit the wreck of the "Royal Charter" in Moelfre. There was once a railway station in the village which was on the Red Wharf Bay branch line.

The village also has a football side, Pentraeth F.C. who operate in the Anglesey League, and won the Megan Cup in 2005/06.

External links

* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=3558802 photos of Pentraeth and surrounding area on geograph]
*Citation
last=Hughs
first=Harold
year=1908
date=1908
contribution=Merddyn Gwyn Barrow, Pentraeth
contribution-url=http://books.google.com/books?id=57MVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA211
journal=Archaeologia Cambrensis
volume=VIII
series=Sixth Series
publisher=Chas. J. Clark
publication-date=1908
publication-place=London
pages=211-220
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=57MVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage


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