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    Bala (Welsh: Y Bala) is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales. Formerly an urban district, Bala lies in the historic county of Merionethshire, at the...
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  • Bala Town Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed y Bala) is a Welsh professional football club from Bala, Gwynedd, who play in the Cymru Premier. They play...
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    Bala Lake (Welsh: Llyn Tegid [ˈɬɨ̞n ˈtɛɡɨd]) is a large freshwater glacial lake in Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dee, which has its source on the slopes of...
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  • Pennsylvania Wales, Minnesota Wales, Utah Bala, Kansas Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania (named for two places: Bala, Gwynedd and Cynwyd, Denbighshire) Berwyn, Pennsylvania...
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    Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (category Organisations based in Gwynedd)
    pharmacies. The Board is named after Betsi Cadwaladr, a Welsh nurse born in Bala, Gwynedd in 1789. Towards the end of her life – in her mid-60s – she worked alongside...
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    protected by the Llŷn AONB. Gwynedd also contains several of Wales's largest lakes and reservoirs, including the largest, Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid). The area...
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  • Bala, Gwynedd residents". BBC News Wales. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2017. A decision to name a wing at the UK's newest prison after a Gwynedd...
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  • station, railway station in Bala, Gwynedd, Wales Bala Lake Halt railway station, former railway station in Bala, Gwynedd, Wales Bala (New) railway station,...
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  • Dee Regulation Scheme (category Bala, Gwynedd)
    flooding events downstream of Bala as Bala Lake (52°53′31″N 3°37′05″W / 52.892°N 3.618°W / 52.892; -3.618 (Llyn Tegid (Bala))) was able to contain the...
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    Afon Tryweryn (category Bala, Gwynedd)
    Snowdonia National Park and after 19 kilometres (12 mi) joins the river Dee at Bala. One of the main tributaries of the Dee, it was dammed in 1965 to form Llyn...
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    Dafydd Iwan (category People from Bala, Gwynedd)
    and a founding member of Plaid Cymru. He spent most of his youth in Bala in Gwynedd before attending the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he studied...
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  • Elizabeth Watkin Jones (category People from Bala, Gwynedd)
    Elizabeth May Watkin Mrowiec (née Jones; 10 May 1907 – 21 June 1965) was a Welsh teacher and campaigner. She was a leading figure in the protests over...
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  • Pradesh, India Bala, Ahor, Rajasthan, India Bala, Gwynedd, Wales Bala Lake, Wales' largest natural lake Bala Series of geologic beds Bala, Mehedinți, Oltenia...
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    International in McHenry, Maryland, US — pumped Canolfan Tryweryn near Bala, Gwynedd, North Wales — natural flow modifications Cardington Artificial Slalom...
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    Christopher Timothy (category People from Bala, Gwynedd)
    Doctors, and Ted Murray in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Timothy was born in Bala, North Wales in 1940. He is the son of Anglican priest and BBC announcer...
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    Christ Church, Bala, is in Bala, Gwynedd, Wales (grid reference SH926362). It is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Penllyn & Edeyrnion, the...
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  • an evidential link with Wales are included here. Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania named after Bala, Gwynedd Berwyn Township, Custer County, Nebraska named after...
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    County Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Sir Y Bala), is a municipal building in Bala, Gwynedd, Wales. The structure, which is now used as a restaurant, is a Grade...
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    Mary Jones World (category Bala, Gwynedd)
    small heritage centre located in Llanycil near Bala, Gwynedd, Wales. Situated on the north shore of Bala Lake, it provides information on Mary Jones, a...
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  • Nonconformist preacher and his sickly wife, and spent his childhood near Bala, Gwynedd, before attending a minor public school. His foster parents died, and...
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    Maes Tegid (category Bala, Gwynedd)
    playing field in Bala, Wales. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and is the home ground of Bala Town (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed y Bala). The stadium...
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    1950: Wrexham 1951: Fishguard 1952: Machynlleth 1953: Maesteg 1954: Bala, Gwynedd 1955: Abertridwr, Caerphilly 1956: Caernarfon 1957: Ammanford 1958:...
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  • long battle with Motor Neuron Disease. He is buried in the hills of Bala, Gwynedd. Davison, Phil (2 September 2014). "Ken Griffiths obituary". The Guardian...
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    D. Jones, a Welsh nationalist nonconformist preacher: 23  based in Bala, Gwynedd, who had called for a new "little Wales beyond Wales". He spent some...
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    Bala F.C. was a football club based in Bala, Gwynedd, Wales. Bala entered the first and third Welsh Cups, in 1877–78 and 1879–80. Both times it was drawn...
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  • residential centres Gwersyll Llangrannog, Ceredigion Gwersyll Glan-llyn, Bala, Gwynedd Gwersyll Caerdydd (Cardiff) Pentre Ifan, Pembrokeshire The Urdd has...
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    Rhiwlas, Llandderfel (category Grade II listed buildings in Gwynedd)
    Rhiwlas is an estate about 1 km (0.62 mi) to the north of the town of Bala, Gwynedd, Wales. It has been in the possession of the Price family for over four...
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  • Augustus Mervyn Owen Anwyl Anwyl-Passingham (category People from Bala, Gwynedd)
    youngest son of Major Robert Townshend Anwyl-Passingham, JP, DL (1843–1893), of Bala, Merionethshire (who had taken the additional name of Anwyl in 1888), and...
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  • Jack Evans (footballer, born 1889) (category People from Bala, Gwynedd)
    winning 8 caps. Evans was born in Bala. As a youngster he worked as an apprentice printer while playing for local side Bala Wanderers, despite his three older...
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    Bala railway station was on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Wales. It replaced the first Bala station which was further away from...
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