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    Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862...
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    historic county of Glamorgan in Wales. The earliest published mention of the dish is from the 1850s in the book Wild Wales by George Borrow, although earlier...
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    Ruabon (section Wild Wales)
    1850s the English writer George Borrow toured Wales and wrote an account of his journey in the book Wild Wales: “Rhiwabon … a large village about halfway...
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    The Wild Animals and Circuses (Wales) Act 2020 (asc 2) is an act of Senedd Cymru, which bans circuses from using wild animals. Wild animals had been a...
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    Gelert (category Individual animals in Wales)
    historians do not believe that Gelert ever existed. It is recorded in Wild Wales (1862) by George Borrow, who notes it as a well known legend; by Brewer's...
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  • Wild Wales is a television documentary presented by Iolo Williams and produced by the BBC. A total of three hour-long episodes were filmed over a year...
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    Jack Wild (30 September 1952 – 1 March 2006) was an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver! (1968)...
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    Peter the Wild Boy (born c. 1713; died 22 February 1785) was a boy from Hanover in northern Germany who was found in 1725 living wild in the woods near...
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    walking tours in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and the Isle of Man. Of these, only the Welsh tour yielded a book, Wild Wales (1862). Borrow's restlessness...
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    difference is apparent in books published before 1951. In George Borrow's 1907 Wild Wales he states that "Snowdon or Eryri is no single hill, but a mountainous...
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  • Wild In Your Garden was a live BBC Television show, broadcast in 2003. Presenters Bill Oddie, Kate Humble (both in a suburban garden in Bristol, England)...
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    Cyhoeddedig yn y Llyfrfa Wesleyaidd. Borrow, George Henry (2004). "LXXX". Wild Wales Its People, Language and Scenery. Digital Antiquaria, Incorporated. ISBN 1580572839...
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  • known under the name Twm Sion Catti"). George Borrow, walking through Wild Wales in 1854, heard several tales about Twm from a fellow-walker on the way...
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    The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and...
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  • wigs favoured by the aristocracy. In George Borrow's 1862 travel book Wild Wales, the author comes upon an itinerant Irish fiddler and asks him to play...
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  • animals fell out of fashion. A new children's wildlife series, The Really Wild Show, began in 1986, with the former Animal Magic co-presenter Terry Nutkins...
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    Dingo (redirect from Australian wild dog)
    of New South Wales wrote using the name dingo only for camp dogs. It is proposed that in New South Wales the camp dingoes only became wild after the collapse...
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    Monmouth and its Buildings, 2003, ISBN 1-904396-01-1, p.3 George Borrow, Wild Wales, first published 1862, reprint 1998, ISBN 1-871083-26-5, p.519 John Bartholomew...
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    the Torrent at the Devil’s Bridge, North Wales. The celebrated English author George Borrow wrote Wild Wales (1854), which includes a lively, humorous...
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    a'i Fab, 2004 ISBN 978-0-85284-318-5 Wild about the Wild, Gwasg Gomer, 2005 Wild Places Wales, Seren, 2016 Wild Places UK, Seren, 2019 "Iolo Williams"...
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    Spencer Lee Wilding (born 26 July 1972) is a Welsh actor and special creature performer. He is from Meliden in Denbighshire, north Wales. He has also had...
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  • that it would've been unethical to actually disturb the breeding process of wild lobsters for one of the scenes, which was why they made the decision to use...
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  • programmes: an early series followed the footsteps of George Borrow's Wild Wales (1862). In the early 1980s he spent three years making the BBC series...
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  • Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie is a live BBC TV show, broadcast nightly, Monday – Thursday, from 31 May 2004 to 17 June 2004. Following on from the...
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  • Borrow describes aspects of Gwter Fawr in the mid-19th century in his book Wild Wales published 1862. The current name is derived from "Brynamman House", the...
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  • cuts include the BBC Two Wild strand. Productions already underway were not affected by the cuts, so the following year came Wild China, Pacific Abyss, Lost...
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    Wales. In the UK, the press focused on the pomp and regalia, with newspaper headlines such as "Welsh go wild for Their Royal Prince" and "Proud Wales...
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    The wild man, wild man of the woods, or woodwose/wodewose is a mythical figure and motif that appears in the art and literature of medieval Europe, comparable...
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  • The Really Wild Show is a long-running British television show about wildlife, broadcast by the BBC as part of their CBBC service to children. It also...
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    Offa's Dyke (category Anglo-Saxon sites in Wales)
    between England and Scotland in the Scottish Marches. George Borrow, in his Wild Wales (1862), drawn from folklore, claimed that: [It] was customary for the...
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