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3 unusual facts about Hay-on-Wye


Bredevoort

Bredevoort has presented itself as Bredevoort boekenstad (Bredevoort book town), after the examples of Hay-on-Wye in Wales and Redu in Belgium.

Clive Farahar

The new owner of Francis Edwards invited Farahar back as manager but when the business moved to Hay-on-Wye in order to reduce costs Farahar decided to leave and set up his own antiquarian travel book business.

Ewyas

By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Ewyas or Ewias was an autonomous area bounded by the Black Mountains in the west, Graig Syfyrddin in the south, the line of the Golden Valley in the east, and Yager Hill and Cefn Hill to the north, just below the village of Clifford Castle near Hay-on-Wye.


¡Sin Salsa No Hay Paraíso!

¡Sin Salsa No Hay Paraíso! (2010) is the 63rd album by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico.

1876–77 Home Nations rugby union matches

Scotland: HH Johnston (Edinburgh University RFC), Malcolm Cross, RC MacKenzie, EI Pocock (Edinburgh Wanderers), JR Hay-Gordon, SH Smith, DH Watson, D Lang, C Villar, RW Irvine capt.

Adam de Colone

A record of payments in 1628 by George Seton, 3rd Earl of Winton for portraits is preserved;Item gevine to Adame the painter for my Lord Errol, my Lady Hay, and James Maxwells portraits, 86 lib.

Black Mountains, Wales

The Black Mountains may be roughly defined as those hills contained within a triangle defined by the towns of Abergavenny in the southeast, Hay-on-Wye in the north and the village of Llangors in the west.

Cavendish River

The river was named in 1882 by John Hay in commemoration of Lord Frederick Cavendish, who earlier that year was murdered in Dublin's Phoenix Park.

Charles Hay

David Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale (Charles David Montagu Hay, born 1947), British peer

Cicerbita alpina

In Finland this plant is known as "bear-hay" because the Eurasian brown bear feeds on it, as do elk and reindeer.

Conscription Crisis of 1918

The plan simply called for a letter (drafted by Hay, and approved by Edward Shortt, then Chief Secretary for Ireland) to be sent by the French Primate to the Irish bishops, requesting that they soften their opposition to conscription to aid the war effort in France.

D'Arcy Broderick

:Saint Brendan's Voyage
The Galtee Mountain Boy
New Mown Hay
Streets of New York
Phil The Fluthers Ball
Cliffs of Baccalieu
Jigs: Dr. Keiley-O/Whe're you goin' me silly old man/ Kerry Slide
Black Gold
Shores of Amerikay
Nancy Spain
Daisy A Day
Reels: The leaky roof/ Fiddles on the wall.

Electoral district of Sydney-Lang

It was west of George Street, generally south of Margaret Street, north of Hay Street and east of Darling Harbour.

Elizabeth Hay

Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1820–1904), née Lady Elizabeth Hay, British peer

Fort Point Channel

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the wye connection to the west-facing lines (now used by the MBTA Commuter Rail) and the Red Line tunnel roughly underneath

Francis Godolphin Waldron

On 9 June 1795 he was, at the Haymarket, the first Prompter in George Colman's New Hay at the Old Market.

Grong Grong

This town has a railway station on the Hay branch off the Main South Line.

Hay rake

Some of the more popular European manufacturers of hay rakes are Tonutti, Kverneland with the Brands Vicon and Deutz-Fahr, Claas, SIP, Fella, Gokmenler, Krone and Pöttinger.

Hay Swamp

Endangered fish and mussel species present in Hay Swamp include, Eastern Sand Darter, Greenside Darter, Northern Riffleshell, Snuffbox,Wavy-rayed Lampmussel, Rainbow Mussel and Kidneyshell.

Hay-on-Wye railway station

The Golden Valley Railway, which had its northern junction at Hay and ran through the Golden Valley to Pontrilas, was built between 1876 and 1889, was closed down in 1898, and then rescued by the Great Western Railway in 1901.

The line was not completed between The Lakes at Clifford and Eardisley until 1 December 1818 because of the problem of the river crossing at Whitney-on-Wye.

Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay

He was the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Adam Drummond, K.C.B., of Megginch Castle, Perthshire.

Hole-in-the-Wall, Herefordshire

It is some five miles to the north of the town of Ross-on-Wye and part of the parish of Foy — the village of Foy, a mile to the west, is accessible by a footbridge over the Wye, built in 1919 by David Rowell & Co..

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 Tyrie

On his return in December, Tyrie was sent to the University of Pont-à-Mousson, as professor of Scripture and head of the Scots College, and two years later, on the successive deaths of Fathers Edmund Hay and Paul Hoffaeus, he was again called to Rome (22 May, 1592), where he became Assistant for France and Germany, and played his part in the Sixth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1593).

Joseph Bonomi the Younger

In July 1826, Bonomi resigned (and was replaced as Hay's assistant by Edward William Lane).

King Street, Perth

Other High end retailers surround King street on Hay Street including - Burberry, Emporio Armani, Canali, Hugo Boss and Apple.

Linda Agostini

Tony Agostini had recently returned to Sydney after being held in internment camps at Orange, Hay and Loveday from 1940 to 1944.

Local Boy in the Photograph

During an interview with Sky Arts HD after his performance at the Hay festival in June 2010, Kelly Jones explained the meaning of a few of his songs and said that "Local Boy in the photograph" was based on the true story of local boy Jamie, who was killed by a train travelling between Cwmbach and Aberdare.

Lydney railway station

Lydney Junction (Severn and Wye) was used as a through-station for passenger services to and from Berkeley Road railway station and over the Severn Railway Bridge.

Margaret Danner

In 1966, Danner took her long-desired trip to Africa through the John Hay Whitney Fellowship to join prominent African-American cultural figures at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal.

Mott MacDonald

On 30 July 1902 Basil Mott and David Hay entered into partnership under the name Mott & Hay.

Nigel Strutt

He became a fellow at Wye College in 1970, and was Master of the Worshipful Company of Farmers in 1976-7.

Pershing, Wisconsin

The meadow and Alder bottoms are all subject to be overflowed to a depth of 1 to 2 feet and are good for Hay.

Roches Noires

Roches Noires, Morocco, an arrondissement of eastern Casablanca, in the Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the Grand Casablanca region of Morocco.

Ronald Cuthbert Hay

An award of the Distinguished Service Order came after leading the attacks on the Palembang oil refineries on 4 January 1945, when Hay's fighters shot down eight Japanese aircraft for the loss of one Corsair.

Royal Malta Yacht Club

In 1970 the club moved from Hay Wharf, Floriana, to Fort Manoel, Manoel Island.

Sidney Clive

He died on 7 October 1959 in a disastrous fire at the family home, Perrystone Court, near Ross-on-Wye.

Stanley Bowie

Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie FRS (born 24 March 1917, in Bixter, Shetland - died 2008) was a Scottish geologist.

Susan Hay

Hay has also donated to many charities as well as hosts the televised Toronto Santa Claus Parade.

Tennessee State Route 116

This section of the highway parallels Walden Ridge to the immediate southeast, and a former spur of the Norfolk Southern Railway (now closed), and passes through Briceville, Fraterville which was the site of a 1902 mine explosion, "The Wye" near the former mining camp of Beech Grove, and finally through a gap in Walden Ridge to enter Lake City.

Thomas Somerville, 1st Lord Somerville

Their eldest daughter Mary married Sir William Hay of Yester, another daughter Geillis married Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, and Margaret married Roger Kirkpatrick of Closeburn in Niddsdale.

Tishani Doshi

Countries of the Body was launched in 2006 at the Hay-on-Wye festival on a platform with Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood, and others.

Trozos de Mi Alma, Vol. 2

Like his 1999 release Trozos de Mi Alma this album includes songs written by Solís that were previously recorded by other artists, such as Laura Flores ("Antes de Que Te Vayas"), José Javier Solís ("Quien Se Enamoró"), Pesado ("Te Voy a Esperar"), Pablo Montero ("Pídemelo Todo"), Victoria ("Hay Veces"), Rocío Dúrcal ("Extrañandote" and "Yo Creía Que Sí"), Paulina Rubio ("Ojalá") and Marisela ("Dios Bendiga Nuestro Amor" and "No Puedo Olvidarlo").

Waterside hot water hay pellet furnace

The waterside hot water hay pellet furnace was invented by Gus Swanson a farmer from Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

WAtoday

It was formerly located in the same building as Fairfax Radio 6PR, at 169 Hay Street, East Perth, but is now based in Subiaco.

William Street, Perth

This is followed by Murray and Hay streets, which are pedestrian malls to the east; and then St Georges Terrace, which is a through-route for vehicular traffic.

Wesley Church is also on the corner of William Street and Hay Street.

Wood County, Wisconsin

The north of the county is in the Northern Highlands, mostly rich cropland with heavy clay soil, used for corn, soybeans, hay and dairy.

Wye Bridge, Monmouth

The bridge is a crossing for the Wye but it is also the start of the Wysis Way which is a long footpath that connects Monmouth to the Kemble in Gloucestershire and to other National footpaths.

Wye Oak

Dr. Frank Gouin, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at the University of Maryland, College Park, impressed both by the age and size of the tree, as well as its unusual resistance to oak wilt fungus and the gypsy moth, led a successful effort to clone the Wye Oak.

Wye, Kent

On the Downs east of the village is a crown (hill figure) carved in the chalk by students in 1902 to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.


see also

Black Mountains, Wales

Settlements in and around the Black Mountains include Hay-on-Wye, Llangors, Talgarth, Crickhowell, Cwmdu, each in Powys, Abergavenny in Monmouthshire and Longtown in Herefordshire.

Clyro

This part of Wales, including the villages of Clyro, Capel-y-ffin, Llowes, Glasbury, Llanigon, Painscastle, and the town of Hay-on-Wye, as well as Clifford and Whitney-on-Wye in neighbouring Herefordshire, is sometimes referred to as "Kilvert Country".

David Inshaw

He moved to Clyro near Hay-on-Wye in 1989 but returned to Devizes in 1995 and has lived there since then.