estate. It is home to the Wenvoe Quarry and Wenvoe Castle Golf Club. Maintaining a thriving farming community for centuries, Wenvoe, while still a farming...
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Wenvoe Castle was a castle and country estate between Barry and Wenvoe, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. Today the former estate forms the Wenvoe...
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Calder Navigation and used part of his wealth to build the mansion named Wenvoe Castle. He became High Sheriff of Glamorgan. Peter Birt was born around 1723...
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Wenvoe Castle Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course near Barry and Wenvoe in the Vale of Glamorgan off the A4050 road, situated to the south of Cardiff...
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several golf clubs, including the Glamorganshire, Southerndown and Wenvoe Castle clubs. Owing to its close proximity to Cardiff, most of the major roads...
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Ogmore Castle (Welsh: Castell Ogwr) is a Grade I listed castle ruin located near the village of Ogmore in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, east of Ogmore-by-Sea...
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Llanblethian he founded the town of Cowbridge and in Miskin he founded the castle and town of Llantrisant. The largely medieval church of the Holy Cross was...
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was also known as Wenvoe Quarry. Wenvoe Quarry is managed by Breedon Group, and the mineral rights are owned by the Wenvoe Castle Estate. The quarry...
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The Wenvoe transmitting station, officially known as Arqiva Wenvoe, is the main facility for broadcasting and telecommunications for South Wales and the...
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the conservation area, the oldest structure is what remains of Peterston Castle built by the Norman lords of the manor, Le Sor family, probably in the mid-13th...
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microlith flint tools have been found at Friars Point on Barry Island and near Wenvoe and Neolithic or New Stone Age polished stone axe-heads were discovered...
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leaders. In January 1316, for instance, Llywelyn Bren attacked Caerphilly Castle, and for the next two months there was conflict and devastation throughout...
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Glamorgan, Wales on the River Ogmore. It grew around the now ruined Ogmore Castle, built by the Normans. The village does not lie in the parliamentary constituency...
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27 February 2023. "Wenvoe Castle Gardens and Grounds, Cardiff (265817)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 27 February 2023. "Wenvoe Castle Kitchen Garden, Cardiff...
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Cathedral. The manor lands were leased to the Earls of Plymouth of St. Fagans Castle. In 1853 the family purchased the manor outright. Because the surrounding...
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1860) of Wenvoe Castle was High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1828. The name "Jenner" is said to be the same as Genor or Genore. The Jenners of Wenvoe traced...
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large Iron Age hill fort, Castle Ditches. The steep cliffs at Llantwit which allow walks along the coast to St Donat's Castle and Atlantic College have...
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besides his Castle a fair Manor house built after a new manner, where he did live the most of his time, which house as well as the Castle was broke down...
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Cabin to Sliding Bridge Breakwater Lighthouse, Barry Docks Grotto in Wenvoe Castle Park Porthkerry Viaduct (partly in Rhoose community) Lower Porthkerry...
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park and ride near Junction 34 on the South Wales Main Line near Hensol Castle. The plans will include an integrated bus service between the railway station...
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the earth in penance. There is a similar legend associated with Ogmore Castle. As these two locations are within a couple of miles of each other it is...
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ruins of East Orchard, one of the twelve Norman Castles, and the Site of West Orchard, another Castle of later date: As well as the Port of West Aber...
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Glamorgan: Volume III - Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments the Later Castles from 1217 to the present. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical...
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