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8 unusual facts about Vale of Glamorgan


A4055 road

The road then enters the Barry district of Palmerstown along Cardiff Road and goes into Weston Square, Gladstone Road, Broad Street, Harbour Road and finally Friars Road in Barry Island.

Cadoxton, Glamorgan

Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan, in the Vale of Glamorgan county borough in Wales

Casuals United

A leading organiser of Casuals United is Jeff Marsh of Barry, South Wales, a former member of the Soul Crew football hooligan firm.

Celtic Way

The route continues through the Vale of Glamorgan, including two significant burial chambers: Tinkinswood and St Lythans, both of which raise interesting archaeoastronomical questions.

Home Bargains

In August 2007, two stores in South Wales were opened in Barry and Caerphilly, these had been acquired from Netto which abandoned its plans to expand into the region.

Jack Petersen

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Memorial Hall in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

Penarth railway station

Parts of the disused trackbed through Lower Penarth and towards Sully have been blocked and built on.

Penllyn

Penllyn, Vale of Glamorgan, a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan


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 Council

Council reorganisation in 1974 paired Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan together as district councils subject to the new county of South Glamorgan.

Cosmeston Medieval Village

Cosmeston Medieval Village is a "living history" medieval village near Lavernock in the Vale of Glamorgan not far from Penarth and Cardiff in south Wales.

Crachach

The Pontcanna and Whitchurch areas of Cardiff are popular Crachach hotspots, as is the Vale of Glamorgan.

Lynette Davies

In December 1993, at the age of forty-five, she was drowned at Lavernock Point, on the coast of the Vale of Glamorgan.

Rice Powell

Powell now led his forces to seize Swansea, then Neath before advancing into the Vale of Glamorgan with Royalists rising in support en route, with Cardiff as their aim.

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.


see also

Jack Matthews

Whilst stationed at RAF St Athan air base in the Vale of Glamorgan in 1943, Matthews fought future world champion Rocky Marciano in an amateur boxing match.

Llantwit

Llantwit Major - coastal village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales