Senghenydd (Welsh: Senghennydd, IPA: [sɛŋˈhɛnɪð]) is a former mining village in the community of Aber Valley in South Wales, approximately four miles northwest...
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Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion (Welsh: Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd,...
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Ifor Bach (section Welsh Lord of Senghenydd)
also known as Ifor ap Meurig and in anglicised form Ivor Bach, Lord of Senghenydd, was a twelfth-century resident in and a leader of the Welsh in south...
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Senghenydd railway station served the town of Senghenydd, in the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales, from 1894 to 1964 on the Senghenydd branch of the...
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casualties in disasters of pit coalfields, including British, such as the Senghenydd colliery disaster. Such disasters continue to afflict working mines, for...
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Senghenydd Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Senghenydd in South Wales. The club formed during the 1898/99 season built around...
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Rhymney Risca Ruthin St Asaph (city) St Clears St David's (city) Saltney Senghenydd Shotton Swansea (city) Talbot Green Talgarth Tenby Tonypandy Tredegar...
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William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr (redirect from William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd)
in 1896, and in 1911 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Merthyr, of Senghenydd in the County of Glamorgan. He was Knighted in 1885. He was Knighted as...
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List of rulers in Wales (section Lords of Senghenydd)
Lordship of Senghenydd, then a vassal of Lordship of Glamorgan. Ifor Bach (c. 1158, Ifor ap Meurig), Lord of Senghenydd Gruffudd, Lord of Senghenydd (d. 1211)...
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Peninsula, in the area. The Welsh cantref in the medieval period was known as Senghenydd. It is said that St Cenydd's son, St Ffili, built a fort in the area,...
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Hamstead, Maypole, South Moor, Whitehaven, Little Hulton, Cadeby and Senghenydd. The disasters he investigated caused a loss of 1250 lives in total. In...
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Universal Mining Disaster Memorial Garden at Senghenydd, Caerphilly, commemorates the 439 men killed in the Senghenydd colliery disaster of 1913, the worst mining...
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Rhymney Railway (section Aber branch (Senghenydd))
Merthyr Vale was singled in 1952. On 1 February 1894 the Aber branch, to Senghenydd, at the head of a steep valley formed by the Nant-yr-aber stream, was...
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fortifications which divided the Norman lordship from the Welsh lordship of Senghenydd. Further up the Cefn Cibwr ridge on the boundary with Caerphilly there...
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Henry III. At first, de Clare and the Lord of Senghenydd were allied, but in 1266, after the Lord of Senghenydd and Llywelyn ap Gruffudd aligned themselves...
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explosions, but the risk was ignored for over 60 years until the 1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster. As a respected scientist in a nation with strong maritime...
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in 1158, he and his wife and son were captured by the Welsh Lord of Senghenydd, Ifor Bach ("Ivor the Little"), and carried away into the woods, where...
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beneath the main upper bed of sandstone. The linear earthwork known as Senghenydd Dyke stretches across the eastern side of the hill. It is considered to...
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Beyond (1960) Born Clifford George Evans (1912-02-17)17 February 1912 Senghenydd, Glamorgan, Wales Died 9 June 1985(1985-06-09) (aged 73) Aberaeron, Dyfed...
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Town) Route 469: Bargoed – (Fochriw – Rhymney) Route 475: Caerphilly – Senghenydd Route 476: Trelewis – Taff Bargoed Route 477: Edwardsville – Merthyr Tydfil...
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disaster killed 84 miners in Briceville, Tennessee October 14, 1913: Senghenydd colliery disaster, the worst mining accident in the United Kingdom; 439...
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Powys Wenwynwyn Arwystli Cedewain Cyfeiliog Caereinion Mechain Mochnant Gorfynydd Gwynllwg Gŵyr Penychen Senghenydd Gwrtheyrnion Elfael Maelienydd Buellt...
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the commote of Kwmwd Kibwr (Ceibwr in contemporary Welsh) of the former Senghenydd cantref Cantref Breinyawl with the addition of Llandaff. It was formed...
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The workings were connected underground to the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd for ventilation purposes. On 1 June 1902, a platform collapsed in the...
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secondly, William de Soliers) Mabel FitzRobert: married Gruffud, Lord of Senghenydd, son of Ifor Bach Thomas FitzRobert Robert of Gloucester is a figure in...
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Mitsui Miike, Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan 439 14 October 1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster Senghenydd, Wales 437 21 January 1960 Coalbrook mining disaster Coalbrook...
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Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly. It was in the county...
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history have been caused by coal dust explosions, such as the disaster at Senghenydd in South Wales in 1913 in which 439 miners died, the Courrières mine disaster...
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the confiscated armor of the rebel Llywelyn Bren (of the royal house of Senghenydd in Glamorgan) is recorded to have comprised an aketon, a gambeson, 3 haubergeons...
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RFC Oakdale RFC Pontllanfraith RFC Penallta RFC Risca RFC Rhymney RFC Senghenydd RFC Trinant RFC "Council and democracy". Caerphilly County Borough Council...
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