Carmarthen Priory, now virtually disappeared, was a monastic settlement which pre-dated the Norman Conquest. It was dedicated to St John the Evangelist...
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sacked by Owain Glyndŵr. The Black Book of Carmarthen of about 1250 is associated with the town's Priory of SS John the Evangelist and Teulyddog. The...
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its name comes from its association with the Priory of St. John the Evangelist and Teulyddog at Carmarthen, and is referred to as black due to the colour...
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Merlin's Oak (redirect from Carmarthen Oak)
known as the Old Oak and Priory Oak, was a pedunculate oak that once stood on the corner of Oak Lane and Priory Street in Carmarthen, South Wales. Merlin's...
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"Castle of Abersafwy". According to a record in the Cartulary of Carmarthen Priory he was a "Latemeri" (interpreter), which would suggest that he (having...
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Carmarthenshire, Wales. The building dates from 1786 and is located on Priory Street, Carmarthen. It ceased being an active place of worship in 2024. Penuel Baptist...
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Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it. (Often many small houses of monks, nuns, canons...
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football stadium in Carmarthen, Wales. Situated on Priory Street, it is currently used for football matches and is the home ground of Carmarthen Town AFC. The...
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List of monastic houses in Wales (redirect from Abbeys and priories in Wales)
Carmarthen Clas Kidwelly Priory Llanarthney Clas Llandeilo Monastery Llandovery Priory St Clears Priory Talley Abbey Whitland Abbey Cardigan Priory Llanbadarn...
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Rhys ap Thomas (category Mayors of Carmarthen)
died at Carmarthen Priory in 1525. After Henry VIII suppressed the monasteries, Rhys's tomb was moved to St. Peter's Church, also in Carmarthen. Rhys's...
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Carmarthen Bridge (also known locally as the Towy Bridge or Town Bridge) is the modern 1930s road bridge crossing the River Tywi in Carmarthen, Wales,...
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Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales (in Welsh, Cydweli). Roger, bishop of Salisbury (d.1139), a Norman invader founded the priory of...
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deferment of the decision. Bledri ap Cydifor makes a grant of land to Carmarthen Priory. Richard I de Grenville makes a grant of land to the Congregation...
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constituency comprises the following areas in Pembrokeshire: Part of the former Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire The wards of Amroth and Saundersfoot North...
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manuscripts suggests that he may have received some education at Carmarthen Priory, but his early life is otherwise rather obscure. Lewys lived through...
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St Mary's Church, Llanllwch (redirect from Church of St Mary, Carmarthen)
attached to St Peter's Church, Carmarthen, both of which were conferred on the Priory of St. John the Evangelist at Carmarthen in the Early Middle Ages. The...
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Robert Plant (redirect from Priory of Brion)
lessons and looking into the mythology of the land (such as Black Book of Carmarthen, Book of Taliesin, etc.) Plant's first son, Karac, was named after the...
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500m 550yds St Mary's Priory ruins Cartlett St David's, Prendergast St Martin's St Thomas' Haverfordwest (/ˌhævərfərdˈwɛst/ HAV-ər-fərd-WEST, locally...
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Welsh). The Priory Church of St Mary Magdalene (Church in Wales) is a grade II* listed building and was founded c. 1100; a Cluniac priory of St Martin-des-Champs...
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Brecon (redirect from Priory Church in Wales School)
was founded in 1541. The junction of the east–west A40 (London-Monmouth-Carmarthen-Fishguard) and the north–south A470 (Cardiff-Merthyr Tydfil-Llandudno)...
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Cadw SAM: CM008: Carmarthen Castle coflein NPRN: not yet identified. DAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: CM236: St John's Priory coflein NPRN: not...
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Dafydd Elis-Thomas (category People from Carmarthen)
the year. Dafydd Elis Thomas was born on 18 October 1946 at Priory Hospital, Carmarthen, and brought up in the Llandysul area of Ceredigion, and in Llanrwst...
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was on the west side of the High Street opposite to the lychgate of the Priory Church of St Mary Magdalene. It was designed in the vernacular style, built...
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Monarch Commonwealth of England Personal details Born ca 1627 Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire Died 31 December 1700(1700-12-31) (aged 73) Sutton House, London...
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Pembroke community each elect one councillor. Pembroke is part of the Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Senedd constituency and the Mid and South...
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Caldey Island (category Carmarthen Bay)
18 km2) and its highest elevation is 197 feet (60 m). The island lies in Carmarthen Bay on the northern side of the Bristol Channel in the county of Pembrokeshire...
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mentioned as prior of Bromehill Priory, Weeting, Norfolk in 1525. Before that he probably entered St Osyth's Priory, near Colchester, in about 1516....
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Montayne, the antiquarian John Leland refers to a massif extending between Carmarthen and Monmouth i.e. what is now considered to be the Brecon Beacons in the...
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credited with the establishment of the clas (ecclesiastical settlement) in Carmarthen, which took its medieval name, Llan Teulyddog, in his honor. Following...
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March 1555) was a Bishop of St David's in Wales. He was prior of Nostell Priory, embraced the English Reformation, and was made Bishop of St. David's by...
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