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Penrhyndeudraeth is a village and also community in the Welsh area of Gwynedd. The town is close to the mouth of the River Dwyryd on the A487 virtually 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) east of Porthmadog, and also had a population of 2,150 at the 2011 census, enhanced from 2,031 in 2001. The neighborhood includes Minffordd as well as Portmeirion. According to the 2011 Census, Penrhyndeudraeth is the 19th most Welsh-speaking area in Wales, with approximately 76% of the its homeowners aged three years or older specifying that they might speak Welsh. According to the most recent Estyn evaluation record of the town’s primary school, Ysgol Cefn Coch, 79% of pupils originated from houses where Welsh is spoken. In an event in June 2011, with brand-new English landlords of the Royal Oak pub in Penrhyndeudraeth, clients left the bar in anger as well as were intimidated with an airgun after being informed to quit getting their drinks in Welsh. The pub subsequently had a modification of administration. The Penrhyndeudraeth Children as well as Young People’s Chaired Eisteddfod is held yearly at the Memorial Hall. The village is residence to the Snowdonia National Park Authority head office. There are many language traces of Old Welsh to be discovered in the place names in the Penrhyndeudraeth location, such as “Pont Briwet/ Briwet Bridge (Briwet is cognate with the Breton word “Brued” meaning bridge). Remains of old huts can be located near Ty ‘n y Berllan, which go back to the Bronze Age. Penrhyndeudraeth’s Alun ‘Sbardun’ Huws wrote a track, Strydoedd Aberstalwm (roughly “roads of long ago”), in tribute to the town. His popular band Y Tebot Piws also recorded their goodbye album at Penrhyndeudraeth Memorial Hall in 2011.