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2 unusual facts about West Wales


Castle Hotel, Aberaeron

The Castle Hotel, Aberaeron is located in a Grade II listed building in the coastal town of Aberaeron, Ceredigion, West Wales.

North Dock, Llanelli

North Dock is a former industrial dock in Llanelli, West Wales used mainly for exporting coal and tin plate from South Wales.


Bynea railway station

Bynea railway station serves the village of Bynea near Llanelli, West Wales.

Freshwater West

Freshwater West (also known as Fresh West) is a beach near Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire in West Wales.

Hywel Dda

The local health board of south-west Wales also bears his name.

Llandybie railway station

Llandybie railway station serves the village of Llandybie near Ammanford, West Wales.

Llangadog railway station

Llangadog railway station serves the village of Llangadog near Llandeilo, West Wales.

Llangennech railway station

Llangennech railway station serves the village of Llangennech near Llanelli, West Wales.

Llanwrda railway station

Llanwrda railway station serves the village of Llanwrda near Llandovery, West Wales.

Y Mabinogi

It follows three main characters who find themselves moving from their world in West Wales to the setting of the tales of Welsh mythology known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Welsh: Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi, often referred to as simply Y Mabinogi), from which the film's title is derived.


see also

Anarawd

Anarawd ap Gruffydd (died 1143) a prince of Deheubarth in south-west Wales.

Bodfan

He is the patron saint of many churches in Gwynedd in north-west Wales, such as St Mary and St Bodfan Church in Llanaber and St Bodfan church in Abergwyngregyn.

Calaminarian grassland

In the United Kingdom they are predominantly found on industrial or post-industrial land, especially in the east of Cumbria and western dales, the Peak District and north west Wales and parts of the Scottish Highlands.

Desert of Wales

Elenydd - a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ceredigion, west Wales.

Evans Bros Auctioneers

Evans Bros Auctioneers is one of the oldest independent auctioneers in Wales, formed in 1895 in Llanybydder, West Wales.

Glan-y-Mor Comprehensive School

There was a large amount of feedback given to South West Wales Media (Publisher of South Wales Evening Post & Llanelli Star) with backing being given to the school.

Jim Griffiths

At age 29, he left the colliery on a miner's scholarship to the Central Labour College, London, On returning home he worked as Llanelly Labour Party agent, between 1922–1925, before becoming an agent for the Anthracite Miners' Association, 1925–1936, and President of the powerful Miners' Federation of South Wales – The Fed – in the Anthracite district of West Wales between 1934–1936.

Kingsbridge, Swansea

The premises of two south and west Wales radio stations called Swansea Sound and 96.4 The Wave are located in Kingsbridge.

Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway

This milk creamery provided much extra traffic during its construction, plus after its opening it provided large quantities of milk traffic using six-wheel milk tankers which was taken firstly to Lampeter, then combined with milk traffic from Pont Llanio milk creamery near Tregaron on the Carmarthen and Aberystwyth line to the freight yards in Carmarthen where they would be combined with other milk tankers from Whitland and other West Wales milk creameries and then on to London.

Langland

Langland Bay, near the village of Langland on the Gower Peninsula of south-west Wales

Pembrokeshire Record Office

Pembrokeshire Record Office is a county record office and archive repository located within the town of Haverfordwest in south-west Wales.

Roman conquest of Britain

During his tenure, he probably established the fort at Pumsaint in west Wales, largely to exploit the gold deposits at Dolaucothi.

Simon Hopkinson

Following on from this in 1978 he became the youngest chef to acquire an Egon Ronay Guide star with his restaurant The Shed in Dinas in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

Tattenhall

Tattenhall is home to a group of houses designed in 1927 by architect Clough Williams-Ellis, famous for creating the Italianate village of Portmeirion in north west Wales.

The Grey King

The geography described in the book is based very closely on the real geography in and around the Dysynni Valley in Gwynedd in north-west Wales.

Ystwyth

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