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unusual facts about Caerau, Bridgend


Caerau

Caerau, Bridgend, near Maesteg in the River Llynfi valley, south Wales


2013 Swansea measles epidemic

There were a total of 1,219 measles notifications (suspected cases) in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys, with 1,455 measles notifications for the whole of Wales, 664 of which were in Swansea alone.

Archbishop McGrath Catholic High School

Archbishop McGrath Catholic High School is a secondary school once located in Ynysawdre, Bridgend but recently moved to Brackla, Bridgend.

Arthur John Williams

Although they moved to Eastbourne for some time, Williams and his family moved back to South Wales in 1889 and set up home at Plas Coed-y-Mwster, a mansion in Coychurch, Bridgend.

Balloon flange girder

None of these bridges are known to survive in their balloon form, although a girder from one was later re-used for bridge widening work (1861) across the Coity road near Bridgend and survived there.

Bridge FM

106.3 Bridge FM, commercial radio station from Bridgend County Borough, Wales

Bridgend Blue Bulls

Allan Bateman won caps for Wales (RL) while at Warrington, Cronulla, and Bridgend Blue Bulls 1991…2003 14-caps 5(6?)-tries 20(24?)-points

Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust

Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust was an NHS Trust based in Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan.

Caerau Hillfort

Caerau Hillfort (ST13377498) is a large triangular multivallate Iron Age hillfort occupying the western tip of an extensive ridge-top plateau in the western suburbs of Caerau and Ely, Cardiff, Wales.

Capital Region Tourism

Capital Region Tourism defines the region and therefore the area it serves as the local authority areas of: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan.

Cardiff City Blue Dragons

Lynn Hallett won caps for Wales while at Cardiff City (Bridgend) Blue Dragons 1982…1984 2-caps 2-goals 4-points

Graham Walters won caps for Wales while at Hull F.C., and Bridgend Blue Dragons 1980…1984 2(3?)-caps + 1-cap (sub)

Dilwyn Lewis

Raised in an orphanage in his birth town of Bridgend in Wales, Dilwyn John David Lewis studied for the ministry in the Church of England at Kelham College but instead became a clothing salesman before embarking on a successful career as a freelance clothing designer in London.

Flemingston

The John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) states that the Flemingston parish was within the Bridgend district or Glamorgan.

Inishowen

Then as the road heads South along Lough Foyle it passes through Moville town, Quigley's Point and the Village of Muff where the road turns right and heads back to Bridgend where the journey started.

Llantwit

Llantwit Fardre - village between Pontypridd and Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

Lyndon Mustoe

Mustoe represented several Welsh club sides throughout his playing career, including Chepstow, Newport, Pontypool, Cardiff and Bridgend.

Martyn Burridge

He has played for numerous clubs around Wales most notably Cardiff RFC, Pontypool, Abertillery, Tredegar, Merthyr and Bridgend.

Pen-y-Bont

Bridgend, a town in south Wales with the Welsh name Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr

River Ogmore

It runs generally from north to south from the Ogmore Vale and Gilfach Goch, past Bridgend and Ogmore.

River Sorn

Draining Loch Finlaggan and having gathered the waters of the Allt Ruadh and the Ballygrant Burn, it flows southwestwards to enter the sea at the village of Bridgend at the head of Loch Indaal.

ROF Bridgend

In 1935, it was therefore agreed to keep armaments research at the Woolwich Arsenal in south-east London, while production would be transferred to two new factories at ROF Chorley in Lancashire (Filling Factory No.1) and ROF Bridgend in Glamorgan (Filling Factory No.2).

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff

The current ecclesiastical terrority of the diocese comprises the local government areas of Cardiff, Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan, Newport, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Herefordshire.

Ronnie Rees

Following his retirement from professional football, Rees worked at the Ford motorworks in Swansea and Bridgend.

Vale of Glamorgan Line

By the late 1990s, a daily train runs between Ford’s plants at Dagenham and Bridgend and merry-go-round coal trains run between Onllwyn and Cwmgwrach (to the west), Tower Colliery, Newport Docks and Avonmouth (to the east), to Aberthaw power station averaging some 10 trains a day.


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