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{{Short description|Village and community in Anglesey, Wales}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place
| type = Village
| country = Wales
| static_image_name = Pentraeth.jpg
| static_image_caption = Nant Terrace, Pentraeth
| population = 1,178
| population_ref = <ref>Census, 2001</ref>
| map_type = Wales Anglesey
| coordinates = {{coord|53.28373|N|4.21695|W|region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SH523786)|display=inline,title}}<!-- Note: WGS84 lat/long, converted from OSGB36 grid ref -->
| unitary_wales = [[Isle of Anglesey]]
| lieutenancy_wales = [[Gwynedd]]
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Ynys Môn (Senedd constituency)|Ynys Mon]]
| constituency_westminster = [[Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency)|Ynys Mon]]
| module= [[File:Wales Anglesey Community Pentraeth map.svg|240px]]<br />Map of the community
}}

'''Pentraeth''' ({{IPA|cy|'pɛntraiθ|lang}}) is a village and [[Community (Wales)|community]] on the island of [[Anglesey]] (''Ynys Môn''), [[North Wales]], at {{gbmapping|SH523786}}. The [[Royal Mail]] [[postcode]] begins LL75. The community population taken at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] was 1,178.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127503&c=LL75+8HA&d=16&e=62&g=6488851&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1432131095116&enc=1|title=Community population 2011|access-date=20 May 2015}}</ref> The village itself having a population of 557.<ref>{{NOMIS2011 | id=W37000156 |title = Pentraeth Built-up area|access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref>

==Name==
Its [[Welsh language|Welsh]] [[Welsh placenames|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''. 

==History==
In 1170 the village 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 (ship)|''Royal Charter'']] in [[Moelfre, Anglesey|Moelfre]]. Between 1908 and 1950 it was served by [[Pentraeth railway station]], on the [[Red Wharf Bay branch line]].

==Amenities==
The village has a football side, Pentraeth F.C., who play in the [[Welsh Alliance Division 2]], the fourth tier of Welsh football. The centre of the village is the Square. It is bounded by St. Mary's Church and the [[Panton Arms Hotel, Pentraeth|Panton Arms]] public house as well as a row of shops called Cloth Hall. This was founded in the 19th century by Benjamin Thomas as a general store. It continued as a grocery store into the 1990s, and is now occupied by a carpet shop as well as a bakery and party-ware hire shop. The community includes [[Rhos Cefn Hir]].

==Notable buildings==
===St Mary's Church===
{{main|St Mary's Church, Pentraeth}}

St Mary's Church is the village church. The date of construction is unknown, but is probably from some time between the 12th to 14th centuries. Some medieval stonework remains in three walls of the building. A chapel was added to the south side in the 16th or 17th century, and the church was altered and refurbished during the 19th century.  The church is still in use, as part of the [[Church in Wales]], and is one of five churches in a combined parish. It is a [[listed building|Grade II listed building]], a designation given to "buildings of special interest, which warrant every effort being made to preserve them",<ref name=Cadwlist>{{cite book|url=http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/upload/resourcepool/WhatIsListing_englishLR983.pdf|title=What is listing?|publisher=[[Cadw]]|year=2005|isbn=1-85760-222-6 |page=6}}</ref> in particular because of the retention of medieval fabric in a predominantly 19th-century building, and its "fine" memorials.<ref name=List>{{Cadw|num=5557|desc=Church of St Mary|access-date=4 January 2011}}</ref>

=== Ty Fry ===
Ty Fry, on the road from Pentraeth to [[Rhos Cefn Hir]], is an important house dating from the 17th century. It is a [[Listed building|Grade II* listed building]]<ref>{{NHAW|num=5451|desc=Ty Fry|grade=II*|access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref> and its  garden is listed, also at Grade II*, on the [[Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales]].<ref>{{NHAW|uid=388|num=PGW(Gd)66(ANG)|desc=Ty Fry|class=HPG|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref>

==Governance==
Prior to the [[Isle of Anglesey electoral boundary changes 2012|2012 Anglesey electoral boundary changes]] an [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] in the same name existed, electing a county councillor to the [[Isle of Anglesey County Council]]. This ward included the community of [[Llanddona]] and had a total population in 2011 of 1,869.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/pentraeth-w05000887#sthash.58yeALnX.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|access-date=20 May 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.pentraeth-cc.cymru/ Pentraeth Community Council website]
*[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=3558802 Photographs of Pentraeth and surrounding area on geograph]
*{{Cite book
|last=Hughes
|first=Harold
|contribution=Merddyn Gwyn Barrow, Pentraeth
|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57MVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA211
|title=Archaeologia Cambrensis
|volume=VIII
|series=Sixth Series
|publisher=Chas. J. Clark
|date=1908
|location=London
|pages=211–220
}}


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