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unusual facts about Goch



Eugen Meindl

Meindl’s corps fought with distinction at Goch and in the Wesel bridgehead.

Gilfach Goch

Gary Dobbs (born 1965), the author and actor was raised in Gilfach Goch though currently lives in the nearby village of Tonyrefail.

Bryn Allen (1921–2005), the Wales international footballer was born in Gilfach Goch.

Jacob C. Gottschalk

In 1701, he received a letter from the church in Goch, permitting him to migrate to Pennsylvania, where he arrived at Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1702.

Mbongeni Buthelezi

Buthelezis works have been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of African Art in New York, the Goch Museum in Germany as well as the Prague Biennale.

Milwr Tunnel

Low lead prices in 1938 caused the majority of the workforce to be temporarily laid off, but Pilkington's Glass began using the tunnel to excavate high quality limestone from 1939; this quarrying continued until 1969, creating large artificial caverns west of Olwyn Goch.

Niers

The Niers flows through Mönchengladbach, Viersen, Wachtendonk, Geldern and Goch before flowing into the Meuse just across the border with the Netherlands, in Gennep.

River Ogmore

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

The Brand New Monty Python Bok

Examples of the former include an interconnected series of jokes based on figures of speech and an advertisement for the fictional Welsh martial art of Llap Goch, which claims to be able to teach students how to grow taller, stronger, faster, and more deadly in a matter of days.

Trealaw

Trealaw is a dormitory town of the more famous Tonypandy, its name translates from the Welsh language as 'the Town of Alaw', which derives from Alaw Goch or Alaw Coch (red melody), the bardic name of David (Dafydd) Williams (d. 1863) the father of Judge Gwilym Williams (1839–1906), who founded the village (along with that of Williamstown, a village to the south of Trealaw) during the 'coal-rush' of the 19th century.


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