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Debate rages over the precise
translation of this Welsh name but it roughly
translates as Glade of the Mead (brewers). By the
16th century Llanerch-y-medd was one of Anglesey’s
major market towns. When copper mining and slate
quarrying were at their peak on the mainland there
were more than 250 cobblers in Llanerch-y-medd
making shoes for the workers. But, as with so many
Anglesey towns, modernisation (in this case the
mechanisation of shoe making in Northamptonshire)
resulted in a decline in this traditional
industry.
