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    Gelligaer (Welsh: Gelli-gaer Welsh pronunciation: [ˌɡɛɬɪˈɡaːɨr]) is a community in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales, in the Rhymney River valley...
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    Coalfield the valley was rural and farmed. It lies in the community of Gelligaer. In the Welsh language, ystrad is a wide flat bottomed valley and mynach...
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    Crumlin Cwmbran Denbigh Dolgellau Ebbw Vale Ferndale Fishguard Flint Gelligaer Glynneath Goodwick Gorseinon Harlech Haverfordwest Hay-on-Wye Holyhead...
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    part of Ystrad Mynach which had been in the Caerphilly community to the Gelligaer community. This left the reduced Caerphilly community just covering the...
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    Church, Gelligaer is a Listed place of worship in the community of Gelligaer in Caerphilly, South Wales. The site of a Roman fort, Gelligaer is believed...
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  • castle field) Gelligaer Common Road, Bedlinog: 51°42′09″N 3°17′10″W / 51.7024485°N 3.2861183°W / 51.7024485; -3.2861183 (Gelligaer Common Road, Bedlinog)...
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    25 March 2009, Llancaiach Fawr" (PDF). Gelligaer Times: Newsletter of the Gelligaer Historical Society. Gelligaer Historical Society. May 2009. Media related...
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  • Gelligaer Urban District Council was a local authority in Glamorgan, Wales. It was created in 1908 under the provisions of the 1894 Local Government of...
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    Old Bakehouse Publications. ISBN 1-874538-64-6. Gelligaer Historical Society (1972). Gelligaer. Gelligaer Historical Society. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • a comprehensive school, founded in 1729 in the parish and village of Gelligaer and, later, moved to the nearby village of Gilfach, in the Rhymney Valley...
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    stone markers still in its original place is on a high mountain ridge at Gelligaer. Of the later plaitwork patterned standing crosses the finest and best...
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    Edwardsville A4048, east of Blackwood connects the Taf and Sirhowy valleys. Via Gelligaer B4255 High Street, Bedlinog A472 south of Nelson. The two arms south of...
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    River, though Cadoc's life says that she later moved to Capel Wladus in Gelligaer. The Lady's Well at Tredegar may also have been dedicated to her and so...
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    settlements Aberbargoed Abercarn Bargoed Blackwood Caerphilly Crumlin Gelligaer Newbridge Rhymney Risca Ystrad Mynach Communities Abercarn Aber Valley...
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    Dolaucothi Gold Mines, Carmarthenshire. Fort, settlement and museum. Gelligaer small Roman fort Gateholm, Pembrokeshire Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd fort...
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    Roman road was made to Gelligaer as a connecting link between the forts of Cardiff and Brecon. In addition to a fort at Gelligaer another was eventually...
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  • until he stepped down at the 2001 general election. Rogers was born in Gelligaer in 1932, the youngest of twelve children. He had a scholarship to Selwyn...
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    enlarged in 1974, gaining Vaynor from Brecknockshire and Bedlinog from Gelligaer Urban District. In 1996 Mid Glamorgan County Council was abolished, and...
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  • Doug Mountjoy (category People from Gelligaer)
    1942 – 14 February 2021) was a Welsh snooker player from Tir-y-Berth, Gelligaer, Wales. He was a member of the professional snooker circuit from the late...
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  • Aberpergwm, Cadoxton, Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, Caerleon, Cheriton, Cwmcarvan, Gelligaer, Llancarfan, Llangadog, Llangattock, Llangattock-juxta-Usk, Llangattock...
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  • Gelligaer 1904 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Evan Thomas 739 Conservative D.S. Jones* 494 Majority 245 Liberal gain from Conservative Swing...
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    Penallta House in the Tredomen area of Ystrad Mynach (in the community of Gelligaer), opening in April 2008. The other office at Pontllanfraith House subsequently...
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    out through both valleys. When the sites of several platform houses at Gelligaer Common were excavated in the 1930s, potsherds from the 13th to 14th centuries...
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    Stoke-on-Trent Corporation Act 1935 25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. cxi 2 August 1935   Gelligaer Urban District Council Act 1935 25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. cxii 2 August 1935...
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  • Gelligaer No.1 1985 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour N. Harris 1,735 66.8 Plaid Cymru G. Howells* 863 33.2 Majority Turnout 48.9 Labour gain from Plaid...
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  • Gelligaer 1904 Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Evan Thomas 739 Conservative D.S. Jones* 494 Majority 245 Liberal gain from Conservative Swing...
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    communities in Caerphilly County Borough, with Newbridge being the largest and Gelligaer the most populated. 18 of them have a community council, with four calling...
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  • settlements Aberbargoed Abercarn Bargoed Blackwood Caerphilly Crumlin Gelligaer Newbridge Rhymney Risca Ystrad Mynach Communities Abercarn Aber Valley...
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    Lighting Order 1914   Feltham and District Electric Lighting Order 1914   Gelligaer (Bedlinog and Fochriw) Electric Lighting Order 1914   Heanor, Eastwood...
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  • Pontlottyn Caerphilly CF82 HENGOED Hengoed, Cefn Hengoed, Ystrad Mynach, Gelligaer, Maesycwmmer Caerphilly CF83 CAERPHILLY Caerphilly, Abertridwr, Senghenydd...
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