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unusual facts about Shell Grotto, Pontypool



A4042 road

It begins on junction of the A40 and A465 south of Abergavenny and then travels southwards towards Little Mill north of Pontypool.

Billhook

Knighton/Radnorshire:
With similar measurements to the Pontypool/Monmouthshire style, this style has the least curvature of any hook and is almost a straight blade.

Bobby Windsor

He played for Brynglas and Cross Keys before joining Pontypool where with Graham Price and Charlie Faulkner he became part of the legendary Pontypool Front Row, also known as the Viet Gwent (a play on Viet Cong) and immortalised in song by Max Boyce.

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.

Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal

The Brecon to Pontypool section was one of seven stretches of canal, formally designated as remainder waterways, which were re-classified by the British Waterways Act of 8 February 1983.

New Inn

There is a fire station located on New Road that serves the Pontypool, Griffithstown, Sebastopol and New Inn, and the surrounding villages of Little Mill and Penperlleni.

Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway

Incorporated on 3 August 1846, in 1847, the Act was passed for the Taff Vale Extension, from Coedygric North Junction, Pontypool westwards to the Taff Vale Railway at Quakers Yard.

Pontypool and New Inn railway station

The village of Griffithstown, now a substantial part of Pontypool, was named after Henry Griffiths, the first stationmaster at Pontypool Road Station.

Pontypool RFC

Pontypool's first international player to be capped directly from the club was Cliff Pritchard, who after playing his first games for Wales as a Newport player, joined Pontypool in 1905 and was capped as part of the 1906 Home Nations Championship.

Semantic satiation

Semantic satiation is used extensively in Tony Burgess' novel Pontypool Changes Everything, as well as in the film adaptation of the novel.

Shell Grotto, Pontypool

::For other examples see Shell Grotto.


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