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Penrhyndeudraeth is a small town as well as community in the Welsh area of Gwynedd. The community 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, enhanced from 2,031 in 2001. The neighborhood consists of Minffordd and Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking neighborhood in Wales, with roughly 76% of the its residents aged 3 years or older mentioning that they could talk Welsh. According to the latest Estyn evaluation report of the town’s primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of students come from homes where Welsh is talked. In an incident in June 2011, with new English proprietors of the Royal Oak bar in Penrhyndeudraeth, consumers left the pub in anger as well as were intimidated with an airgun after being told to quit buying their drinks in Welsh. The bar consequently had a modification of administration. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children as well as Young People’s Chaired Eisteddfod is held annually at the Memorial Hall. The town is house to the Snowdonia National Park Authority head office. There are numerous language traces of Old Welsh to be discovered in the name in the Penrhyndeudraeth location, such as “Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word “Brued” suggesting bridge). Remains of old huts can be discovered near Ty ‘n y Berllan, which date back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth’s Alun ‘Sbardun’ Huws composed a tune, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (around “streets of long ago”), in tribute to the town. His popular band Y Tebot Piws likewise recorded their farewell album at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.