Gilfach Goch is a community, electoral ward and small former coal mining village mostly in the Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales, near the larger...
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Gilfach is the small district that lies between Bargoed and Pengam, situated in the Caerphilly county borough, seven miles north of Caerphilly, within...
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Gilfach Goch Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Gilfach Goch, South Wales. Gilfach Goch RFC was established in 1889, has been...
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Railway, originally running from the National Slate Museum at Gilfach Ddu to Pen Llyn. Gilfach Ddu was the main engineering workshop of the Dinorwic Quarry...
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Pont-y-Gilfach (or Pont y Gilfach) is a small village in the community of Henfynyw, Ceredigion, Wales, which is 70.1 miles (112.8 km) from Cardiff and...
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Gilfach Ddu (also known as the Dinorwic Slate Quarry Workshops) are a series of well preserved Grade I listed industrial buildings built to serve the...
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its effects on the family. The fictional village in the film is based on Gilfach Goch, where Llewellyn spent many summers visiting his grandfather, and...
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Gilfach Goch railway station served the village of Gilfach Goch, in the historical county of Glamorgan, Wales, from 1881 to 1930 on the Ely Valley Railway...
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Council, consists of the towns of Bargoed and Aberbargoed and the village of Gilfach. The combined population of these settlements is about 13,000. The town's...
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Gilfach Ddu (LLR) railway station is an intermediate station on the Llanberis Lake Railway (LLR), located in Llanberis, Gwynedd, Wales. Most of the LLR...
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Gilfach Fargoed railway station is a railway station serving the village of Gilfach, in Caerphilly county borough, south Wales. It is a stop on the Rhymney...
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Ysgol Gymraeg Gilfach Fargod is a Welsh medium primary school located in the village of Gilfach, Bargoed in the County Borough of Caerphilly. Established...
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announced that Gwynedd County Council had placed a Preservation Order on the Gilfach Ddu workshops, and many items within it. The original connection between...
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novel from conversations with local mining families in the village of Gilfach Goch, in southeast Wales. In the United States, Llewellyn won the National...
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international who played club rugby for Aberavon RFC during the 1970s. Born in Gilfach Goch, Hall was a strong running centre / wing with a great tackle. Capped...
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of the company which exploited it). There is some suggestion that the Gilfach quarry may have been worked as early as the 16th century. It is also claimed...
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Velinheli ~ 1886 409 Ponc-Fawr 1928 Dyffryn 1935 Gilfach Ddu 1950 Village Line 1952 Hafod Owen 1959 Gilfach Ddu 1962 Sold May 1965 Ffestiniog Railway Alice...
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suggested he had been killed in the early 1960s. October 2017 Jamie Perkins Gilfach Goch, South Wales The body of Perkins, who had been living in Tonyrefail...
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coastline is 1.3 mi (2.1 km) miles away at the small shingle beach at Gilfach yr Halen. There are two small rivers running through Llwyncelyn. The Afon...
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trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway. The line opened between Gilfach Ddu (LLR) and Cei Llydan on 28 May 1971, being extended northwards to Penllyn...
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nearby village of Gilfach, in the Rhymney Valley in South Wales. It was founded and funded by a legacy of Sir Edward Lewis of Gilfach Fargoed in the Parish...
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Welsh Slate Museum and the North Wales Quarrying Museum) is located at Gilfach Ddu, the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic quarry, within...
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184. ISBN 0-330-31664-8. "Gilfach Bowls Club win Welsh Open Triples Championship". Caerphilly Observer. 29 August 2019. "Gilfach Bowls Club win Welsh Open...
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trackbed of the closed and lifted Padarn Railway. The line opened between Gilfach Ddu (LLR) and Cei Llydan on 28 May 1971, being extended northwards to Penllyn...
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Maendy (translation: Maindy Mountain) is a hilltop and moorland, near Gilfach Goch, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in south Wales, to the...
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Retrieved 8 February 2011. James, Paul (2002). The History of Bargoed, Gilfach and Aberbargoed in Photographs, Vol. 3. Old Bakehouse Publications. ISBN 1-874538-64-6...
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anglers. It runs generally from north to south from the Ogmore Vale and Gilfach Goch, past Bridgend and Ogmore. The River Ogmore rises at Craig Ogwr (527...
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Padarn Railway Pen-y-Llyn (PR) Penllyn passing loop Cei Llydan Gilfach Ddu (PR) Gilfach Ddu Dinorwic quarry Afon Rhythallt Llanberis (LLR) Llanberis (LNWR)...
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and his brothers at 4 Cecil Court. William Griffiths was originally from Gilfach Goch, South Wales. Griffs Bookshop was a successful business and became...
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unclassified. A4164 Ran from the A4093 at Hendreforgan to the B4564 near Gilfach Goch. Now an extension of the B4564. A4165 Oxford Kidlington Banbury Road...
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