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Penrhyndeudraeth is a village and also community in the Welsh area of Gwynedd. The community is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 virtually 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) east of Porthmadog, as well as had a population of 2,150 at the 2011 census, enhanced from 2,031 in 2001. The neighborhood consists of Minffordd and also Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking community in Wales, with around 76% of the its residents aged 3 years or older specifying that they can talk Welsh. According to the most recent Estyn examination report of the town’s primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of pupils come from homes where Welsh is spoken. In an incident in June 2011, with brand-new English property owners of the Royal Oak club in Penrhyndeudraeth, clients left the bar in anger and were endangered with an airgun after being told to quit getting their drinks in Welsh. The bar ultimately had a modification of management. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children as well as Young People’s Chaired Eisteddfod is held each year at the Memorial Hall. The town is home 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 location, such as “Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word “Brued” indicating bridge). Remains of old huts can be discovered near Ty ‘n y Berllan, which go back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth’s Alun ‘Sbardun’ Huws created a song, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (about “streets of long ago”), in tribute to the town. His popular band Y Tebot Piws likewise recorded their goodbye album at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.