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unusual facts about Capel Dewi, Aberystwyth



Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway

Authorised in 1861, the railway was intended to run between the Cardigan Bay towns of Aberystwyth and Porthdinllaen near Nefyn on the Lleyn Peninsula.

Aberystwyth Town Council

The 2012 Aberystwyth town council elections were held alongside the elections for Ceredigion County council on 3 May 2012.

Aberystwyth University Students' Union

The predecessor to the Union, the Aberystwyth Student Representative Council, was founded in 1900 by Herbert John Fleure, who later went to become a lecturer in botany, geology and zoology at the university.

Bank y Llong

On 1 June 1806 an agreement was entered into whereby John Jones, a London-Welsh surgeon and apothecary, of Gracechurch Street, London and Derry Ormond, Ceredigion, Thomas Morgan, an Aberystwyth solicitor and David Davies, of Machynlleth later of Aberystwyth, then of Castle Green House, Cardigan, entered into partnership to carry on for 14 years a banking business under the name Jones, Morgan & Davies.

BBC Cymru Wales

In addition to these properties, BBC Cymru Wales also has properties in Aberystwyth, Bangor, Carmarthen, Newtown, Penrhyndeudraeth and Wrexham and at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, home to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Benjamin Guggenheim

In the novel Last Tango in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce, Ben Guggenheim's concern for others before himself as the Titanic is sinking is used as a moral compass.

Bow Street, Ceredigion

It would appear that the name is derived from the London street of the same name, and that its application to the small cluster of houses that would become Bow Street was connected with the turnpiking of the main Aberystwyth to Machynlleth Turnpike road from 1770 onwards.

Brenhinoedd y Saeson

P survives in a single medieval manuscript:
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS. Peniarth 20, written c.1330, probably at the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis (Llanegwestl).

Capel Dewi

Capel Dewi, Llandysul, a village in the community of Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales

Capel Dewi, Carmarthenshire, a village in the community of Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Capel Dewi, Aberystwyth

One of the more unusual features of the hamlet is the nearby LIDAR system, which is run by the University of Manchester.

Celtic Manor Resort

Matthews had become friends with the late golf-course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. whose family roots were in Aberystwyth.

David Charles Davies

He was born at Aberystwyth, his father being a merchant and a pioneer of Welsh Methodism, and his mother a niece of Thomas Charles of Bala.

David Lord

On his father's retirement from the Army the family moved to Wrexham and then David was a pupil at St Mary's College, Aberystwyth before attending the English Ecclesiastical College, Valladolid, Spain to study for the priesthood.

Davies and Metcalfe

James Metcalfe (engineer) (1847–1920) was apprenticed to Sharp Stewart and worked for the company until 1867 before joining the Manchester and Milford Railway at Aberystwyth as locomotive foreman.

Elfyn Llwyd

On December 2013 Llwyd appeared on a special Christmas edition of BBC Two's University Challenge representing the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Evan Jones

E. D. Jones (1903–1987), Librarian of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, 1958–1969

George Adolphus Schott

During Schott's early years at Aberystwyth he published his classical work on electromagnetic radiation, which follows the work laid down by Alfred-Marie Liénard.

Graham Sutton

He was educated at Pontywaun Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at Jesus College, Oxford (which elected him to an Honorary Fellowship in 1958).

Gwlad y Gan

– Ivor solo; Hyfrydol Welsh hymn – Children’s choir; Aberystwyth Welsh Hymn – Ivor & chorus; Dan yr Ymbarel (‘Under the Umbrella’) Gerallt Richards – Ivor & children’s choir; Yr Ehedydd (‘The Skylark’) W. S. Gwynn Williams – Sian Hopkins; Pwsi Meri Mew (‘The Pussy Cat’) Trad.

Hannah Dee

Before employment at Aberystwyth, she accepted a one year post doctorate position working in Grenoble (in the French alps).

Herbert Lewis

Lewis was made a Privy Counsellor in 1912, a freeman of the towns of Flint and Aberystwyth, Constable of Flint Castle, honorary LL.D of the University of Wales in 1918.

Herefordshire Trail

The trails links with the Birmingham and Aberystwyth Walk, Black and White Village Trail, Clun Valley Walk, Elan Valley Way, Geopark Way, Leadon Valley Walks, Marches Way, Monnow Valley Walk, Mortimer Trail, Offa's Dyke Path National Trail, Ross Round, Teme Valley Walk, Teme Valley Way, Upper Lugg Valley Walk, Vaughan's Way and the Wye Valley Walk.

Idris Davies

After his death over two hundred of his manuscript poems and a short verse-play, together with the typescripts of his comprehensive wartime diaries, were deposited at the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth.

International Young Publisher of the Year

Among finalists from Argentina, Colombia, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines and Poland, the inaugural IYPY finalists went on a tour of the UK publishing industry to London, Cambridge, Tiptree, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberystwyth and Hay-on-Wye.

James Chater

From 1982 to 1986 James Chater taught history of music at the University of Wales (Aberystwyth), Washington University in St. Louis (USA), the University of Victoria (BC, Canada) and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

John Ainsworth-Davis

John Creyghton Ainsworth-Davis (23 April 1895 in Aberystwyth, Wales – 3 January 1976 in Stockland, Devon) was a Welsh athlete.

La chanson de Fortunio

In 1979 the opera was revived in an English translation by Michael Geliot, by Welsh National Opera, who staged it at the Teatr y Werin in Aberystwyth, the Sir Thomas Picton School in Haverfordwest, the Teatr Gwynedd in Bangor, the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, the Astra Theatre in Llandudno, and the Playhouse Theatre in Cheltenham.

Malcolm Pryce

Pryce also wrote Aberystwyth Noir - It Ain't Over till the Bearded Lady Sings, a BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama, first broadcast on 15 May 2013, featuring Louie Knight and produced and directed by Kate McAll.

Nick Bourne

On 9 September 2013 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Bourne of Aberystwyth, of Aberystwyth in the County of Ceredigion and of Wethersfield in the County of Essex.

Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway

However the Cambrian Railways would not permit the tramway to cross its line at any point between Machynlleth and Aberystwyth, leaving no alternative but to unload into barges to get under the bridge at Ynyslas, and then tranship to coasters from the barges the other side.

Railways in Hereford

Connecting to the Hay Railway via the Kington and Eardisley Railway at Titley Junction, a proposed plan to develop a cross-Wales line via New Radnor to Aberystwyth was never realised.

Rosalind Tanner

She also helped her father's research between 1919 and 1921 at the University College Wales in Aberystwyth, and worked with Edward Collingwood, also of Aberystwyth, on a translation of Georges Valiron's course on Integral Functions.

Sidney Greenslade

Sidney K. Greenslade (1867–1955), born in Exeter, was the first architect of the National Library of Wales, located in Aberystwyth.

Terry Matthews

Matthews had become friends with golf course architect, the late Robert Trent Jones Snr, whose family roots were in Aberystwyth, Wales.

Wye Valley Walk

The route has now been extended to start or finish in Coed Hafren having passed within viewing distance of the source of the river Wye on Plynlimon mountain near Aberystwyth, a total of 136miles.

Ystwyth

River Ystwyth, a river in West Wales, which drains into Cardigan Bay at Aberystwyth


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