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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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